Re: Developer vs. Programmer

From: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Developer vs. Programmer
Date: 2001-04-30 14:24:08
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.30.0104301023150.21796-100000@paprika.michvhf.com
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Is there a clearer way to distinguish Programmer from DB internals
> >> Developer. I always get them confused.
>
> > Since the "Developer's Guide" is something that didn't exist in the
> > docs before 7.1, I'd say that if anything a new name for it would be
> > needed. But I have no suggestions.
>
> What? It was there before:
> http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/part-developer.htm
>
> I agree that "developer's guide" vs "programmer's guide" is a rather
> unclear distinction ... no immediate ideas for better names though.

Let me clarify, there was no major section entitled "Developer's Guide"
like there is now.

Vince.
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