We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
I am a programmer.
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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