Given his affinity towards programming languages, he sounds more like a computer scientist than an engineer, frankly. I wish the two roles didn't get conflated so much.
I'm not sure a physicist is the right term, but there is a difference between your usual carpenter and someone who wants to study hammers and come up with new ways of building them and using them.
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Given his affinity towards programming languages, he sounds more like a computer scientist than an engineer, frankly. I wish the two roles didn't get conflated so much.
That's like saying a carpenter that has an affinity for his saws and hammers is more of a physicist than a carpenter.
I'm not sure a physicist is the right term, but there is a difference between your usual carpenter and someone who wants to study hammers and come up with new ways of building them and using them.
Programming languages are a tool for both, computer science means something much different to me.