RE: What is a programmer (was WDSC and Linux) -- CODE400-L

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Subject: RE: What is a programmer (was WDSC and Linux)
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:27:29 -0500
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> From: Wills, Mike N. (TC)
>
> So what then is the definition of a programmer? One who writes code from
> scratch? In my opinion, that is stupid. If the code is written, and it
> works, why write your own code every time?

A programmer, IMHO, is someone who can debug every line of HLL code in his
application, right down to the operating system (the part that is supported
by the OS vendor).

Joe

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