An unquoted programmer™ is someone whose skill as a programmer is judged solely on the basis of his or her novel, creative contributions in the form of useful code and interesting software applications.

An unquoted programmer is just a programmer, as opposed to a quoted programmer™, or "programmer".


But how do you tell?

1. Quoted programmers™ prefer to write about designing software while programmers prefer to design software.

• If you write about a cool piece of software that you have personally conceived, designed, and produced, you are a programmer.
• If you write about a piece of software that someone else has produced, you may or may not be a programmer.
• If you write about a piece of software that you haven't produced, and as far as you know, nobody else has yet produced, you are probably NOT a programmer (i.e., you are probably a "programmer").