Thanks for bringing this up. It may be more of a domain-specific use of the terms. In science and math, most of the people who are "programming" are not really

Thanks for bringing this up. It may be more of a domain-specific use of the terms. In science and math, most of the people who are "programming" are not really that deep into programming. Most people go to a workshop on "here's how to use R to do some regressions", and they will know a small portion of the language and usually rely on some libraries to handle most of the heavy lifting. For example, the size of the community that actually develops code for analysis in bioinformatics pales in comparison to the size of the community that is doing "bench" biology and performing the analyses. There is a clear distinction because in many cases the training is very different (CS and math backgrounds, vs more science backgrounds) and the "average day" and research focus are different. You can swap out biology with pretty much any other field and see the same split and this is the "package user" vs "package developer" split in technical computing.