[Zikes]

> programming isn't necessarily synonymous with technology

Programming is the applied knowledge of technology. Everything else is just learning - and being restricted to - someone else's idea of how you're supposed to operate that technology.

[dragonwriter]

> Programming is the applied knowledge of technology. Everything else is just learning - and being restricted to - someone else's idea of how you're supposed to operate that technology.

All of engineering that isn't programming disagrees with you, for starters.

Programming is one kind of application of knowledge of one specific area of technology. But so are lots of other things.

[learc83]

>Everything else is just learning - and being restricted to - someone else's idea of how you're supposed to operate that technology.

So programmers aren't restricted to Computer Engineer's ideas of how to operate technology?