When does writing scripts turn into being “programmer”

Question

As an SRE who is constantly fixing software bugs, adding features to open-source software, and writing scripts in various programming languages, I often wonder: At what point does my scripting work transform into full-blown programming work? What else is necessary to make the leap?

flamesofphx · Accepted Answer

Highly dependant on who you ask...For some printing your first "Hello World" program qualifies you.. get that to be output on a webpage with a set of & tags, you become full stack...For other(s) though you could write an even more feature rich and faster version of ZFS filesystem, and they would still not consider you a programmer.

bediger4000 · Answer

Empirically, at about 150 lines. That seems true for sh, PHP, Python and Perl.Edit: somewhat fewer lines for Tcl/Tk for some reason.

sargstuff · Answer

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When does writing scripts turn into being “programmer”

As an SRE who is constantly fixing software bugs, adding features to open-source software, and writing scripts in various programming languages, I often wonder: At what point does my scripting work transform into full-blown programming work? What else is necessary to make the leap?

Highly dependant on who you ask...
For some printing your first "Hello World" program qualifies you.. get that to be output on a webpage with a set of

& tags, you become full stack...
For other(s) though you could write an even more feature rich and faster version of ZFS filesystem, and they would still not consider you a programmer.

Empirically, at about 150 lines. That seems true for sh, PHP, Python and Perl.
Edit: somewhat fewer lines for Tcl/Tk for some reason.

Transcribing steps or developing/implementing steps?