> While both are essential, the hard, interesting, and more valuable part is the first, and "coder" captures the second. Depends on what you find interesting.

> While both are essential, the hard, interesting, and more valuable part is the first, and "coder" captures the second. Depends on what you find interesting. I'd almost consider this an elitist attitude. Eventually, somebody has to do the actual work to implement the abstract algorithms, and it's really a lot better when you've got a talented person that cares about those nuts and bolts details and the realities of hardware and networks and runtime performance.