I think that can come in handy in a business-to-business situation. For example, if you have two engineers you can either call them each a "Software Developer" or you can have a "VP of Engineering" and a "CTO".

Now when your customer, Huge-Corp(TM), who is going to pay the bills for the next 3 months calls, would you rather tell them "let me put one of our developers on the phone" or "let me put our vice president of engineering on the phone"?

This is a great point and something that has been debated extensively over here. I've got a blog post coming to explain our reasoning.

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Here's my fresh blog post: http://savagethoughts.com/post/3772138359/whats-in-a-name

I'm not the only one who noticed that?

Seems odd.

Huh?

2 CS, 1 Designer, 3 others. I count three craftsmen.