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Three Virtues of Successful Programmers

Posted by Racer on March 25, 2006, at 1:45:00

The Three Virtues of Successful Programmers, according to Larry Wall (the guy who created perl):

Hubris
Laziness
Impatience

Doesn't that make you want to be a programmer?

He's also the one who claimed that perl stood for Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister...

(It doesn't -- it's actually Practical Extraction and Report Language -- but since the guy created the language, I guess we can let him make up silly names for it...)

He's from the generation when geeks were funny. Or maybe that was only the UNIX propeller heads?

Re: Three Virtues of Successful Programmers

Posted by deirdrehbrt on March 25, 2006, at 2:16:48

In reply to Three Virtues of Successful Programmers, posted by Racer on March 25, 2006, at 1:45:00

All geeks have the capacity to be funny...... it just takes another geek to appreciate it.

Your post reminded me of something I saw years ago, and it's still around on the net. I think I saw it first before PERL became popular, but you can find it here: http://www.jarvis.com/real_programmers.html

Being a geek, you probably remember this one, but I like reading it now and again.... It's sort of a sacred text for geeks.
--Dee

Such truth...

Posted by NikkiT2 on March 25, 2006, at 3:28:59

In reply to Re: Three Virtues of Successful Programmers, posted by deirdrehbrt on March 25, 2006, at 2:16:48

"All geeks have the capacity to be funny...... it just takes another geek to appreciate it."

*nodding*

:)

Nikki xx

But it doesn't mention PROLOG! (nm) » deirdrehbrt

Posted by Racer on March 25, 2006, at 11:55:32

In reply to Re: Three Virtues of Successful Programmers, posted by deirdrehbrt on March 25, 2006, at 2:16:48

Re: Two things » Racer

Posted by AuntieMel on March 27, 2006, at 9:09:02

In reply to Three Virtues of Successful Programmers, posted by Racer on March 25, 2006, at 1:45:00

Two things came out of Berkeley. LSD and Unix.

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