I think we should just do away with the term 'programmer'. It doesn't really mean much anymore. A 'programmer' could be anything from someone deep into the algorithmic side of thing to someone who spends most of their time writing event hooks in a UI. I don't mean to imply any level of 'who's better' in that statement, just that they are very different concerns, often with little in common other than 'writing code'. Making any generalization of programmers is bound to be wrong.
A "programmer" is already somewhat the same as a "builder" is. A programmer programs, just like a builder builds.
A programmer can have a lot of different hats. A hacker (white or black), computer scientist, developer, etc, all do different jobs. You wouldn't put a hacker into a job of medical or financial responsibility, where a minor bug can be fatal or extremely expensive.
A builder can have loads of different hats as well. A carpenter doesn't do the same thing as an iron worker, a plumber or an electrician.
The carpenter probably could do a lot of the same things, with about the same error frequency as a hacker in a financial job would have. That error frequency would also decline as he got better at wiring like an electrician.
That's my view of what the "programmer" word means.
