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		sethaurus on March 12, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 10x Faster TypeScript At that time, what would have been the distinction between "programmer" and "developer"?

Yoric on March 12, 2025 [–]

If my memory serves, the "programmer" was essentially a mathematician, working on a single algorithm, while a "system developer" was building an entire system around it.

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