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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: namekuseijinnamekuseijin Date: Sep 3, 2008 12:39
On 3 set, 04:30, Benjamin L. Russell Yahoo.com> wrote:> Most of the programmers whom I worked with were not interested in
> programming theory, or even in programming per se, and spent most of
> their free time in the office watching giant centipedes eating mice on
> YouTube, chatting in Yahoo! Messenger, or sending e-mail.
Or reading newsgroups, if they are old-timers... ;)
> Once, I
> tried discussing the Towers of Hanoi problem with one of them, and he
> replied that it was "a very hard problem" in programming. I couldn't
> believe this. Towers of Hanoi is a first-year student problem for
> computer science students!
That's the typical everyday joe. Most people I know from IT only
really know SQL as a programming language. And that is just to fetch
their precious user data in order to feed them to business rules
processors. Why should they give any thought to interesting new
problems so far fetched from their everyday domain? They just let
others write creative tools for them and are happy to just be the
middlemen between tools and users.
> Therefore, they learn to
> hate the topic, and proceed to spend all their free time trying to
> forget about programming.
Yes, but lack of curiosity and no desire to learn is all their fault
really. Most people are cattle and just enjoy eating grass, if there
is any. If there isn't any, they just die.
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