Disclaimer: I'm a civilian If you generate value for an organisation by making a Web site work for them then I think you are a programmer! By the same token,

Disclaimer: I'm a civilian If you generate value for an organisation by making a Web site work for them then I think you are a programmer! By the same token, if someone could lose business/data as a consequence of a serious software error on a system you have implemented, then you are certainly a programmer and you have a lot of responsibility.