A friend told a story about a recent job interview for a devops position. He'd already had phone interviews and a breakfast chat with some engineers from a company with offices in his city, and all that was left was meeting the bigwigs at their office.
As the interview started, one of the executives asked, "So what programming languages do you use most often?" My friend replied, "Well, it depends on the job. PHP, Perl, Python, shell, ..." "Oh," the executive interrupted, "so you're not a programmer, you're a scripter!"
I understand and appreciate the sentiment that marking up text isn't programming, but it reminds me of the sort of mindset that says you're not a real programmer unless you're banging machine code into memory using the front panel of a MITS Altair 8800.
Although, I call the work itself "Python scripting" or "Shell scripting" so if only thing I was doing is those two then I would also call myself "Scripter".
A friend told a story about a recent job interview for a devops position. He'd already had phone interviews and a breakfast chat with some engineers from a company with offices in his city, and all that was left was meeting the bigwigs at their office.
As the interview started, one of the executives asked, "So what programming languages do you use most often?" My friend replied, "Well, it depends on the job. PHP, Perl, Python, shell, ..." "Oh," the executive interrupted, "so you're not a programmer, you're a scripter!"
I understand and appreciate the sentiment that marking up text isn't programming, but it reminds me of the sort of mindset that says you're not a real programmer unless you're banging machine code into memory using the front panel of a MITS Altair 8800.