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		0points 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Now might be the best time to learn software devel... > This is why the industry term "coder" is a pejorative descriptor. It is not.

brabel 8 months ago [–]

It used to be widely seen as such. See for example Stallmanns latest post where he mentions that. Coder was not the same as programmer, it was the lesser half of the job. Nowadays the term has lost its original meaning.

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