ess (phil hunt) wrote:

: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.

Bull****.

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