Subj : Re: Cobol/gnucobol
To : Jcurtis
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri May 30 2025 07:51 am
-=> Jcurtis wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
> I am a COBOL developer
Jc> When I started way back when, we had programmers, systems programmers,
Jc> and systems analysts. "Developers" back then meant real estate,
Jc> construction, etc.
Jc> IDK when the techno title lingo changed. What's wrong with
Jc> "programmer." Maybe some geeks thought it sounds too geeky, so they
Jc> found a word to make them sound less geeky.
I'm a software envisioneer.
Forgive me. I work in Silicon Valley with executive thought partners
and innovation accelerators, according to linkedin.
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