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In a way it’s like how people call themselves “software engineers” instead of “programmer” even if that might be more fitting. You sound more competent when you
by reidjs 7y ago
In a way it’s like how people call themselves “software engineers” instead of “programmer” even if that might be more fitting. You sound more competent when you say devops so you might be able to get a larger salary than a sysadmin.
- outside1234 7y agoWriting code (aka programming) is only a part of being a software engineer. CI/CD, tests, deployment concerns, etc. are what make a software engineer a software engineer.
- hailwren 7y agoEhh, a software engineer is a programmer. The name evolved, but I don't think there is any organization that has software engineering and programming roles separated.
- klodolph 7y agoI know software engineers that hardly write any code at all. They spend most of their time working on specs and design. No separate job title, though. But similar things are happening in e.g. architecture and fields like mechanical and civil engineering. Used to be that you would have separate draftsman but nowadays you could say “an architect is a draftsman” and it would be about as accurate as saying “a software engineer is a programmer”.
- baq 7y agoA programmer as a job doesn’t exists because programming is in great majority of cases the easiest part of software development and/or engineering. Unsurprisingly it’s the people who are the most challenging at this job and the term ‘programmer’ is completely orthogonal to dealing with people.