What Kind of Programmer Are You?
Posted by Daniel Lyons Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:23:38 GMT
Are you the kind of programmer that thinks architecture is really great, and writes pretentious articles about bridges? Or are you more of a corny artist type?
Let me submit a third option: the plumber. Fixing the shitter may not be glorious, but isn’t it rather a lot like email? Especially when you consider that 98% of it is spam? Have you seen Java? Nobody builds the Empire State Building or paints the Mona Lisa in any curly-brace-and-semicolon abomination.
Have you seen all those parentheses in Lisp? Aren’t they rather a lot like, well, pipes?
