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Coder != website developer, methinks. There is a world beyond the web, after all. At any rate, the word "coder" is just so... ugh... you may as well get right

Coder != website developer, methinks. There is a world beyond the web, after all. At any rate, the word "coder" is just so... ugh... you may as well get right to the point and simply refer to yourself as a brogrammer. "Coder", "coding", all of that, it just sounds so wannabe-hip. I cannot possibly be the only person who feels that way.

dllthomas 13y ago
"Coding" has history: http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/code.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/code.html code 2. v. To write code. In this sense, always refers to source code rather than compiled. “I coded an Emacs clone in two hours!” This verb is a bit of a cultural marker associated with the Unix and minicomputer traditions (and lately Linux); people within that culture prefer v. ‘code’ to v. ‘program’ whereas outside it the reverse is normally true.
- BlackDeath3 13y ago
  Thanks for the background. I understand that there is more to "coding"/"coder" than I implied, it's just seems that the words have become so appropriated that I now instantly associate them with the whole "brogrammer" thing.
  - dllthomas 13y ago
    Well, I'm gonna try to hang on to it; it's what my parents used when I was growing up.
    - BlackDeath3 13y ago
      Lucky you :)