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Ask HN: am i a "coder" or a "programmer"

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i can understand code very well regards less of which programming language it is.

some time i can't understand the algorithms

i like coding in scripting languages

i don't think of optimizing the code or efficiency of the code

i love open source project because i get to explore the code and get to know how that works

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[dead] jester5
Yes you are both..!! But your not a theoretical computer scientist..
chrisacky
If you have to ask, you are neither. </non serious answer>

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At what point did we start creating such nonmenclature by which you are either one or the other. They aren't mutually exclusive, and by most accounts, 99.9999% they are the same.

I tell people that I am a coder.

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dkersten
IMHO programmer, coder and software developer are different words for the same thing. Do you write code, program a computer or develop software? Or are they actually the same thing?
DanBC
A programmer create algorithms and structures but without using a specific language. Maybe using things like pseudo code or "Jackson Structured Programming" or etc.

A coder will take the work of a programmer and turn it into usable, compilable, code written in a language.

They are often the same person. Often the "programming" is done at the same time as the "coding".

dkersten
You are the only person Ive talked to who has such a strict definition for the terms. Everyone else seems to either use them interchangeably or has very loose definitions.
stonemetal
What do you believe the difference between the two to be? In US English I am unaware of a difference between the two in either denotation or connotation.