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From: bill@milford.UUCP (bill)
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Subject: Re: the programmer title
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 08:26:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 08:26:13 1986
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> 
>      Dennis Richie wrote in his Turing Award lecture that he calls himself
> a programmer.  ``That's what I put on my income tax return.''.
>      My favorite title used by someone who writes code for a living is
> ``Staff Topologist'', used by someone who specializes in the knotty problems
> of high-speed fill algorithms, hidden line removal techniques, and similar
> tough geometric problems.
>      I myself have a business card that says ``Principal Software Engineer.''
> 
> 					John Nagle

A while after I started here, I was told business cards were being made up
for everyone and what did I want to put down as my title? I dead-panned
"Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets". Unfortunately, when they finally appeared
it came out something (ab)normal like "Operating Systems Engineer".

* "Fize of the ... " is a trademark of some Science-Fiction writer.