nemesis wrote:
> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>> On 11/10/2010 10:03 AM, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> off of managing, and have employees who are decent coders but shit
>>> programmers, and still think you can create something usable. Which
>>
>> I'm curious. What is the distinction between a coder and programmer, 
>> here?
> 
> a coder types away careful algorithms of how to do something as in a spec.
> a programmer receives a half-baked spec in natural language and has to 
> translate that to l33tsp34k at the same time magaging to map the 
> instructions into the computational model already in place.
> 


Plus, the coder writes code. The programmer writes programs. If you think 
the only part of a program is the code, then you're part of the problem.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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