I just wish all of you creative software designes would find a creative title for yourselves and leave my profession to its 5,000 year history.

Language evolves - or devolves, exactly this way. That word "architect" found a resonance with us - who knows why. We took it for ourselves, changing its meaning. Sort of a remix. That happens to many words in the end. Language is not static and fixed for all time.

Architecture - "The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings." Ok, when we think of designing and constructing a building, we think of that as separate from actually furnishing it and moving in with all our belongings. Before we do that, it is just a big empty shell. And so with software "architecture". It is just a big empty shell - a structure. It is not a functioning, living program until all the functions (methods) are completed to the last detail (now using programmer speak).

If you object to our use of "software architect", maybe you might object to poetry as well.

Myself, I speak two languages fluently. When I learned a second language, I was amazed to discover words in the new language based on the same Latin roots, and sometimes even seemingly the same word, took on different nuances, or the metaphor was really stretched, or even took on the opposite meaning. When we see a word in another language that looks just like an English word, for the student of a new language it is so tempting to jump to the conclusion it must have the same meaning. This is called a "false cognitive". Mostly, it does not have the same meaning at all. The end result of learning another language is developing an appreciation for metaphor.

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