> One person may think a "programmer" should know how to design/implement algorithms, while another would say algorithms are a library implementation issue. Th

> One person may think a "programmer" should know how to design/implement algorithms, while another would say algorithms are a library implementation issue. The problem is many of us fill both definitions. One minute I could be creating a complex algorithm, the next I could copy/pasting a shell script from stack overflow and neither is necessarily a superset of the other, so which category would I put myself in?