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14. The Role of the Developer

Leticia Portella1  
(1)
Dublin, Ireland
 

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

—Ellen Ullman

Ah… we finally got to the developers, my crowd. We receive so many names! Software developer, software engineer, programmer, coder. I won’t go into the discussion of why there are so many names, but I want to talk about the role of the person that is one of the ...

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