mac4-security (at) theory (dot) org [email concealed] wrote:

> I must admit that I have no idea what the difference is
> between coding and programming. If this is common
> knowledge to everyone else, please fill me in.

There is no one official set of definitions. Use whatever you think
looks best on your business cards, and your boss doesn't object to. We
could have a very lengthy thread trying (in vain) to define the exact
differences between:

- programmers (and whether it should have one m or two)
- coders
- systems analysts
- software engineers
- systems engineers
- software developers
- system developers
- software architects
- system architects

and probably several more. About half of these have been my title at
some point. Let's not, and deny we even thought about it!

-Dave

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