Serious question. We had a perfectly serviceable word, yet everyone decided to shift. Is it just that it’s shorter to type?

If so, I feel for your colleagues trying to parse your code when all your variables use abbreviations.

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    Programming could also refer to lower paid jobs operating machines, like a CNC Programmer or Radio programs.

    So the real computer software people started using the term “software engineering”. But that’s too long, so ‘coding’.