Re: [MACCAWS] Terminology (was: alt tags? valid code?)

jonathon isaac swiderski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
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> [1] Yeah, OK, 'author,' but to my mind authoring markup and 
> authoring an article, book, etc. are fundamentally different tasks 
> and shouldn't be confused by identical nomenclature. Using 'coder' 
> as a general term for someone writing machine instructions of any 
> sort, however, leaves the term 'programmer' for those doing 
> programming, 'scripter' for those doing scripting and 'developer' 
> for those doing architecture as well as some of the above.

whossa matter, you don't like 'marker-up'?  

seriously, though, I agree completely with the above.

.j.

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