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Ask HN: am i a "coder" or a "programmer"

by yunus on 2/18/12, 6:59 PM with 7 comments

i can understand code very well regards less of which programming language it is.

some time i can't understand the algorithms

i like coding in scripting languages

i don't think of optimizing the code or efficiency of the code

i love open source project because i get to explore the code and get to know how that works

leave the comments please

  • by chrisacky on 2/18/12, 7:24 PM

    If you have to ask, you are neither. </non serious answer>

    <more serious answer>

    At what point did we start creating such nonmenclature by which you are either one or the other. They aren't mutually exclusive, and by most accounts, 99.9999% they are the same.

    I tell people that I am a coder.

    </more serious answer?

  • by dkersten on 2/18/12, 7:38 PM

    IMHO programmer, coder and software developer are different words for the same thing. Do you write code, program a computer or develop software? Or are they actually the same thing?

  • by abrad45 on 2/18/12, 7:40 PM

  • by stonemetal on 2/18/12, 7:39 PM

    What do you believe the difference between the two to be? In US English I am unaware of a difference between the two in either denotation or connotation.