[akmiller]

Rich Hickey had a talk (not sure which one it is at the moment) about how we used to refer to programmers as data processors as the core of your job was reading data from somewhere, processing that data, then moving that data somewhere else. We've moved away from that definition but the fact is, at its core, we are still data processors.

Once you've convinced yourself of that and you look at Clojure through that lens you will find immense power in that language, as everything is built around data transformations.

I do think the move away from data processors as a title is more of an ego thing...none of us probably wants to be called a data processor.