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means Someone who writes and maintains instructions that tell a computer exactly what to do, then spends much of their time figuring out why it didn't do that.

from 'Program' traces back to Greek 'programma' — 'public notice' or 'written proclamation,' from 'pro-' (before) plus 'graphein' (to write). It entered English meaning a written plan or schedule of events, like a theater program. The leap to computing came in the mid-20th century, when early machines had to be given explicit, written sequences of instructions to execute — literally a 'program' in the old sense of a plan laid out in advance. 'Programmer' followed naturally as the agent noun: the person who writes the plan the machine will follow, letter by letter, with none of the sense a human reader would have brought to it.