On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:49:20 -0400 Phil Smith III wrote:

> Nowadays, of course, you can just say "programmer" and
> nobody bats an eye. And so the language evolves.

Losing (completely) the etymology of "computer" - being those *people*
(all women ?) that did the computing of tables. Interesting that the
machines that replaced these people (lead by ENIAC probably) usurped
the terminology.

Shane ...

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