Subj : Cobol/gnucobol
To   : DUMAS WALKER
From : Jcurtis
Date : Thu May 29 2025 02:39 pm

> LOL, now you have me thinking about it.  When I first hired on, my title
> was Programmer/Analyst.  As I moved up, it was Systems Engineer.  It seems
> like "developer" entered the lingo when we started adding "distributed
> systems developers," which was not an official title -- those were the
> folks that did programming for (usually) Microsoft Windows server-based
> systems.

> It may have been, as more than one would later admit to me, because they
> didn't really know how to do the "bare bones" programming per-se.  They
> knew how to work the GUI framework tools to have as much of the code as
> possible generated for them, and how to tweak it to get it at least close
> to what was asked for.

> Eventually, management, the business analysts, and project leaders got to
> where they called us all "developers" and the name sort of stuck.  ;)

Sounds about right. Developers. Generic word for computer geeks of
all kinds. Easier for management to offshore.


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