Subj : Re: Cobol/gnucobol
To   : Jcurtis
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri May 30 2025 07:51:07

-=> 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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