Comment on You Don't Want to Think Like a ProgrammerComments−jaimebuelta12yDon't we tend to discuss a lot about semantics and words?"Don't think like a programmer, think like a developer""Learn to code, not to program"Most of the cases we have words that mean basically the same, and we almost randomly say, more or less, that X means "a good Y".−jaredklewis12yAgreed! I liked the OP, even though it was quite guilty of this. But what is it about programmers (hackers/coders/developers/whatever it's called in your idiolect) that makes us so pointlessly passionate about diction?
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Don't we tend to discuss a lot about semantics and words?
"Don't think like a programmer, think like a developer"
"Learn to code, not to program"
Most of the cases we have words that mean basically the same, and we almost randomly say, more or less, that X means "a good Y".
Agreed! I liked the OP, even though it was quite guilty of this. But what is it about programmers (hackers/coders/developers/whatever it's called in your idiolect) that makes us so pointlessly passionate about diction?