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You clearly did NOT read what I wrote. There is a VERY important distinction, both in the industry and as I am using them here (their definitions as the US Bureau of Labor Statistics uses them). One just writes code. The does things like writes specifications, designs overall systems, interacts with other people in the business to determine their needs, and so on. In many smaller companies or departments this is the same person, but in a large company or development team they are VERY different people. For example, those offshore shops have a very small number of "software engineers", but they have piles of "programmers".

J.Ja