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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: What exactly is a software engineer ?
Message-ID: <89136.130029UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 16 May 89 17:00:29 GMT
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In article <1700002@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>, kathyi@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Kathy Iberle) says:
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>Being new to this string, I'm a bit puzzled.  In my (possibly outdated)
>experience, "programmer" usually refers to someone who has 2 years
>education (an associate's degree) and whose job is defined as
>implementing the detailed design done by a systems analyst.  I believed
>this to be true in the DP world.  In the engineering or technical

I think this is the most common usage in the Data Processing industry.
However, in many graduate CS departments being a programmer (or
hacker, or wizard, or superprogrammer) carries considerably more
status.  Actually, IBM coined the notion of Super Programmer some
years back.  The notion was that there are some jobs which might
require a team of average software developers, but one really good
developer could do it faster alone.