I'd argue that software development is much more like other engineering disciplines than, say, fiction writing or athletics.
I would never say software development is anything like fiction writing! I thought I said the relationship between a designer (or manager) and a programmer resembles the relationship between and editor and a writer (or coach and athlete), rather than architect and brick-layer. I do not think of fiction when I think of writing. Software is hardly fictional, but it is written. I do not see such a great difference between natural and computer languages. No matter how explicit the specifications are that a designer gives a programmer, the coding will depend on logical thinking. And in fact, programmers (in most fields) are given only vague and general requirements -- and most of the time the designer and the programmer are the same person.
-pc
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