The term programmer makes me thinking "we need 100 programmers to meet our deadline!"... stupid concepts like working_code=num_programmers x time and in general

The term programmer makes me thinking "we need 100 programmers to meet our deadline!"... stupid concepts like working_code=num_programmers x time and in general that programmers are easily interchangeable. Developer is much better and is able to evoke the idea that it's not just a matter of writing code but there is a design process involved. p.s. how can I write a verbatim asterisk? backslash quoting does not work