RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

LOL! Fair point there! But "what's in a name? A coder by any other name would code just a neat!" :) J -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 17:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's the difference between a co

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

> Dave, at the end of the day it boils down to semiology - ye > may as well call them ducks and dogs ... That sounds like Humpty Dumpty's argument: "a word means exactly what I want it to mean, no more and no less". (My quote is probably inexact, though. Sorry.) Just one word of warning; I know

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

age- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 17:07 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer?? > Coder = Someone who can work predominately with Mark Up languages coder != someone who can work with markup languages Tha

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

> Coder = Someone who can work predominately with Mark Up languages coder != someone who can work with markup languages That's not coding. It's authoring, or formatting. I worked with markup languages (primarily as a technical writer) long before HTML became popular, and I was never a coder or a

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

Coder = Someone who can work predominately with Mark Up languages Programmer = Someone who can work predominately with lower level languages Just terms we use here when invoicing clients. J -Original Message- From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 20

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

nt: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:30 PM Subject: Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer?? > I think the insinuation is that a "coder" is an HTML- or web-programmer-type > (ASP, PHP, etc.) without OO experience, whereas a "programmer" is someone &

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

> Subject: OT: What's the difference between a coder and > a programmer?? > > Just wanting to know. "Coder" is a slang term for programmer, that's all. There's no difference. I think that the original poster was using the slang term to imply sloppyness, or lack of precision. Dave Watts, CTO, Fi

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

>>There were people referred to as Programmers long before the concept of >>Object Oriented development came along. > > Actually, I think you mean long before the concept of Object Oriented > programming was put into practice. Based on my understanding, OO is just > as old as Procedural Prog

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

At 09:40 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: >(Shouldn't this be on CF-Community?) > >In my world the distinction is not OO based... Object Oriented is a more >advanced programming technique, but you have to remember those who >program in non-Object capable languages (and there are a lot of them). > >T

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

(Shouldn't this be on CF-Community?) In my world the distinction is not OO based... Object Oriented is a more advanced programming technique, but you have to remember those who program in non-Object capable languages (and there are a lot of them). There were people referred to as Programmers l

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

I think the insinuation is that a "coder" is an HTML- or web-programmer-type (ASP, PHP, etc.) without OO experience, whereas a "programmer" is someone with an OO background. Just my take on it, I'll reserve my opinion of just how asinine that statement is. Pete - Original Message - From