Comment by EDC9599190

At the time it was mostly hardware engineers who did this, along with people with math background (especially discreete math). Most of the cutting edge applications for computers were in numerical simulation for engineering, so most software engineers would have been electrical/electronics engineers.

There have been accredited Software Engineering programs in Canada for more than 20 years now.

https://engineerscanada.ca/accreditation/accredited-programs...