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And yet, we don't continue calling a sysadmin turned programmer a sysadmin, so why would you insist that we call a programmer who turns sysadmin a programmer?
by braveo 10y ago
And yet, we don't continue calling a sysadmin turned programmer a sysadmin, so why would you insist that we call a programmer who turns sysadmin a programmer?
It doesn't really matter where they came from, or what's involved in the job, they're sys admins.
No one calls a physicist a programer because the simulation software they wrote could've been written better by a professional developer, they just call them physicists.
- solomatov 10y agoI think, the difference between devops and programmer is similar to the difference between a programmer in OOP and a programmer in a functional language. Or a programmer in a commonly used programming language and programmer in DSL.
- braveo 10y agoI think the difference between devops and a programmer is that they're 2 different titles that describe two different responsibilities in the long term maintenance of software inside a company.