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Re:What's the difference between a "developer" and a "progra... by antirez on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:56AM (#25062)
The term programmer makes me thinking "we need 100 programmers to meet our deadline!"... stupid concepts like working_code=num_programmers x time and in general that programmers are easily interchangeable.

Developer is much better and is able to evoke the idea that it's not just a matter of writing code but there is a design process involved.

p.s. how can I write a verbatim asterisk? backslash quoting does not work

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Re:What's the difference between a "developer" and a "progra... by ralph on Monday May 28, 2007 @12:25PM (#25066)
* yields *
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Re:What's the difference between a "developer" and a "progra... by antirez on Monday May 28, 2007 @01:27PM (#25069)
Thanks, not particularly intuitive :)
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