Computer programmers argue that the "hacker" part of the term "security hacker" refers to someone with an advanced understanding.
 Another reason for the decline for programmers is their skills are being merged with other professions, such as developers, as employers increase the requirements for a position over time
 Most programmers have extensive computing and coding experience in many varieties of programming languages and platforms, such as Structured Query Language (SQL), Perl, Extensible Markup Language (XML), PHP, HTML, C, C++ and Java

