Back in the ancient times of the 90's there were no developers. You were either a programmer or a systems analyst. Programmers wrote the code and Systems Analys

Back in the ancient times of the 90's there were no developers. You were either a programmer or a systems analyst. Programmers wrote the code and Systems Analysts gathered requirements and designed the overall system specs, over time those two jobs kind of merged into what a we call developer, giving the Programmer/Coder much more say into what an overall system will look like/behave than before and ultimately reducing the head count. At least I think that was the idea. EDIT: Another interesting point is that originally programmers were more specialized and dedicated to a single set of tools/languages while developers, when they first appeared, were more concerned with "developing" the ideas into a useful system and writing it in whatever language got the job done faster. Now today pretty much anyone with any skill set calls themselves developers but you see more old timers calling themselves programers.