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Engineer seems too pretentious. Programmer seems....low trade? If so, why not just use developer?

• _bxg1 7y ago
  > Programmer seems....low trade? Does it though? Is there such thing as a low-trade programmer? Even at the very entry level the job postings say "Junior Software Engineer". Programmer, to me, just rings of the 80s/90s, when code was a little more gristly and our field didn't have quite such an inflated ego. It has a vintage charm. "Software Developer" is... fine. It's accurate and descriptive, just very boring (and a bit verbose; "developer" without "software" could be ambiguous so you usually need to say both).
  • arvinsim 7y ago
    > Does it though? Is there such thing as a low-trade programmer? I am not implying that programming is low trade. It's just nowadays, some people's perception of that term is being a code monkey.