Subj : Cobol/gnucobol
To   : Jcurtis
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed May 28 2025 09:49 pm

 Re: Cobol/gnucobol
 By: Jcurtis to Dumas Walker on Wed May 28 2025 01:40 pm

>   Re: Cobol/gnucobol
>   By: Dumas Walker to DARKNETGIRL on Wed May 28 2025 09:10 am
>
>  > I am a COBOL developer
>
> When I started way back when, we had programmers, systems programmers, and
> systems analysts. "Developers" back then meant real estate, construction,
> etc.
>
> IDK when the techno title lingo changed. What's wrong with "programmer."
> Maybe some geeks thought it sounds too geeky, so they found a word to make
> them sound less geeky.
>
> It's never bothered me to be called a programmer. Maybe I'll become a
> developer when I change careers to real estate.

Nowadays, programmers are often called "software engineers". Anything is better than "coders". :-P
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