In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
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Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Programmers can be lazy.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.
Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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