Engineers: What´s in a name? [The Data]

If you were looking for a computer job on the Mark I, you might have described yourself as a coder, not a programmer, a term that wouldn´t emerge until the 1950s. In the late ´50s you could have added computer operator to the job hunt, but a decade later the computing community realized these jobs were not as easy as they seemed, so it created terms like software engineer. Other suggestions (possibly in jest) included flow-charts-man, comptologist, and even turingineer. More serious options included informatician or datolotist.