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by 4ad 5059 days ago
> There are great programmers in this world who can write compilers but who never really groked the web or how to put stuff on it, let alone cool dynamic stuff that works. They may be programmers, but they aren't developers.

So one can be a developer if and only if he does web programming? What about all the other plethora of software products that need to be developed?

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I was being terse for the sake of style, but the gist of that was intended to be "programmers who make nicely packaged product-type things", which of course includes app developers as well as other categories.