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Re:Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014) by jerf on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:42AM (#10339176)
"Practicing law" specifically means performing legal services, in the real law system, for a real client. It is a term of art, not a generic English use of the term. Practicing programming has a much fuzzier meaning, because it is the generic English term.

My point is your snark doesn't hold, because "practicing law" is fundamentally a different thing from "practicing" programming.

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Re:Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014) by jevgeni on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:58AM (#10339293)
Just because my initial comment was a short sentence, doesn't mean it was snarky; like this one.

And although I agree with your definition within a professional legal context, that context is irrelevant to the discussion, since we are discussing a person's personal relationship to the discipline.

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