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Thank you! I am beyond tired of hearing people call programming "coding". I always it was like calling journalists or book author typists.
by netdevphoenix 2y ago
Thank you! I am beyond tired of hearing people call programming "coding". I always it was like calling journalists or book author typists.
- 9rx 2y agoTypist still implies human involvement, whereas compilers supplanted the need for coding ages ago. But when words are no longer useful tech people love to resurrect them into new uses, so, ultimately coding and programming have become equivalent terms.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoThis is so true, it took me a while to get used to it. If you started in the punch-card days, Coders were well-established. They were the ones who punched the cards, that was pretty much the proper job description. They operated the keypunch machines in the way they saw fit to get the most out of the electronics in their own domain. With coding pods, quality control routines, the whole nine yards. By the 1970's it was recognized as a declining technology need, there were still thousands of Coders anyway because jobs were scarce, but fewer every year. No matter what direction people may want to migrate the meaning, that's the real root across the computer industry regardless of whether it was almost forgotten out of disuse.
- mrkeen 2y agoThat's not the problem. Call the terms what you want. Your coworkers are doing the activity of coding without doing the activity of programming. By your book analogy, your coworkers are doing typing, not writing. So keep calling them typists until they start writing something.