• WldFyre@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    The umbrella term I’d use for all of these is “coding”.

    Saying “it’s not programming it’s coding” is like engineer “it’s not dirt it’s soil” levels of pedantry that are silly to expect people outside your profession to know.

    Hey, maybe you are engineers after all lol

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      4 months ago

      But it’s true.

      Coding is, like, the smallest aspect out of all of programming. And unfortunately the part that’s the most fun.

      But if you’re a coder, I assume you don’t know how to design complex systems, just (maybe) implement them or parts of them. That’s not what defines programming.

      (Disclaimer, in all fairness: that’s in my personal, layman opinion as someone who doesn’t know much theory. I might just be very very in the wrong here, lol.)

    • pixelscript@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Sure. Which is why I would only make this distinction in a place where I can reasonably expect people to know better. Like, perhaps, a niche community on an experimental social media platform dedicated to programming.