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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Title Inflation
Message-ID: <1941@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 10:05:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 10:05:58 1986
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In article <1197@homxb.UUCP> afa@homxb.UUCP (R. McIlree) writes:
>
>BACKROUND: I supervise three programmers (referred to as "coders"
>here - generic term) on a software tool development project. I am

    Ack! Pthooey!!  I have no problem with the term "programmer" (though
I'd rather think of myself as a "program developer"), but "coder"?!
Now *that* sounds like somebody writing a COBOL program on one of those
silly coding forms, getting it ready for the keypunchers.

 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)

So I'm *not* single.  Waddya gonna do, shoot me?