The fact that you've plugged in a cat-5 cable does not make you a computer geek.

Agree.

Using Perl or Javascript does not make you a programmer.

Don't.

At least for perl ;-). Although most perl things I do these days is just sysadmin stuff, but I digress. This "you aren't a programmer" snobbery is stupid. I can derive the equations of motion for a fluid over an airplane's wing, and use that same theory to tell you exactly how that airplane will behave, all based on mathematics describing a vortex sheet. Maybe you can too, but if you can't, I think you are the one who is not the geek. See how that snobbery thing works?