Viewer vs Writer - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between viewer and writer

is that viewer is someone that views some spectacle; an onlooker or spectator while writer is a person who writes, or produces literary work.

(en noun)

Someone that views some spectacle; an onlooker or spectator

Someone who watches television

Any optical device used to view photographic slides

(computing) A program that displays the contents of a file of digital images; an image viewer or file viewer

(wikipedia writer)

(en noun)

A person who writes, or produces literary work.

Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet? She’s quite a writer !

(historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the (East India Company), who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

Anything that writes or produces output.

* 2001 , Cay S. Horstmann, ?Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)

If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

* author * See also

* copy writer * diary-writer * ghost writer * screenwriter * space writer * writer's cramp