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Many English words support multiple definitions. Programmers and developers can both be argued to have similar ambiguities.

• paulddraper 10y ago
  Developers, certainly. Programmers...I'm not aware of another use of that other that creating software.
  • grzm 10y ago
    Programmers are also people who schedule broadcast programming or otherwise determines broadcast content.
    • paulddraper 10y ago
      I had wondered if that was a thing; hadn't heard it. Anyway, software developers, computer programmers, and software engineers have no ambiguity. Shorten those if you want, but "coders" is a leap.
      • grzm 10y ago
        Coders is empirically not ambiguous to the point of impeding communication, given that coder is actually in use. Language changes over time. Choosing to try to prevent that is of course something you may do, but it rarely will prevent change from happening. My goodness, within this field itself computer used to refer to a person, not a machine. Run into any ambiguity there recently?
        • paulddraper 10y ago
          > Language changes over time. And so I will continue to champion the language uses I want to see. E.g. internet instead of Internet, regardless instead of irregardless, "access" as both a noun and verb, programmer/developer/engineer instead of coder. May the best word win.