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Programmer vs Programmist - What's the difference?

programmer | programmist |

As nouns the difference between programmer and programmist

is that programmer is one who writes computer programs; a software developer while programmist is one who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.

programmer

English

(wikipedia programmer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who writes computer programs; a software developer.
  • One who decides which programs will be shown on a television station, or which songs will be played on a radio station.
  • A device that installs a software program into some other machine.
  • * 1999 , Peter Spasov, Microcontroller technology, the 68HC11?
    • The EPROM programmer burns the data into the EPROM chip. When programming is completed, remove the EPROM chip and plug it into the circuit...
  • A short film feature as part of a longer film program, a "B-movie" (now rare)

    • See also

    * code monkey * developer * IT * software engineer * systems analyst English agent nouns ----

    programmist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
  • * 1953 , Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century
    • But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution
  • * 1965 , Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (volume 2)
    • In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist , out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche
  • (music) A composer of program music.
  • * 1916 , Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera
    • the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists
  • * 1999 , Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture (page 901)
    • Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.