We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.
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At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
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Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? Because OCT(31) = DEC(25)
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
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Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
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Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
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Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
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Managing programmers is like trying to herd cats.
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Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
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Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.
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Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals ... with their eyes opened.
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