Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: Cobol/gnucobol
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Wed May 28, 2025 22:49

  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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