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Comment on Ask HN: Is 36 too late to start into programming?parent

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There's often examples at this address of people who successfully became programmers but were born for something else:

http://thedailywtf.com/

There are programmers and there are people who can write programs. There is a huge difference.

No, I think you will find that there is not a huge difference - in fact, the definition of programmer is one who writes programs.

I've seen the word developer used as an extension of programmer - someone who doesn't need a pseudocode specification to turn a requirement into a solution, whereas a programmer may be someone who just translates the spec into a machine-readable format. Both are programmers, though.

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