On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:21:49 GMT, Fred J. McCall wrote:
(phil hunt) wrote:

o you know anything about programming? If you did, you'd know that
:developing algorithms is what programmers do.

No, IMPLEMENTING algorithms is what programmers do (and often without
understanding of what they are implementing).

DEVELOPING algorithms is what software and systems engineers do.

"software engineer" and "programmer" are different words for the
same job.

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