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That might vary by countries but in France with have an official "engineering degree" (diplome d'ingénieur) which is also a master's degree, and most software developers have this.

So most software developers in France are absolutely software engineers.

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Software is applied mathematics, though
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And still not applied physics
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> Software is immediately disqualified. Symbols have no physics.

Many physical processes are controlled by software.

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