This 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

This 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.