engineering discipline

基本解释

It's hard to explain to a fresh computer-science graduate why you need conventions and engineering discipline.
很难向一个刚毕业的计算机专业学生解释为什么你需要惯例和工程纪律。
Paradoxically, as this article discusses later, this is easier to do in software than in any other engineering discipline.
然而，正如这篇文章后面所论述的，在软件中减小这种差距比在其他任何的工程学科中要容易的多。
OK, one might say, software is simply an immature engineering discipline. In my professional career, the technologies underlying software projects have turned over about every five years.
好的，有人可能会说，软件只是一个未成熟的工程分支，在我的职业生涯中，大约每五年软件项目的底层技术就要翻新一次。

Lots of universities started teaching engineering as a discipline including Yale.
许多大学,包括耶鲁,在这时开始讲授工程学
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Engineering became a discipline in about the middle of the 1800s.
工程学在19世纪中期成为一门学科
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If you are in a traditional engineering discipline and are not programming computers to do what you were taught to do, your days are numbered.
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It requires an entirely higher level of (achievable) engineering discipline.
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