namekuseijin wrote:
> 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.
Most coders took programming as a job, something you do for money so
could spend them on things that you need and things that interests
you. If there was another job requring same effort and payed more they
would be doing that instead. Why would somebody be reading about tower
of hanoi when there is a good game on TV? If they need something to
advance their career so they could make more money so they could buy
bigger tv they will learn, it doesn't matter to them. It's the people
who see programming as more than work who are complaining.
Just imagine there is enormous demand for violin players, it pays good
and you can find a job easily. So if you aren't 100%% tone deaf you
might say : I can't find programming job at least not one that pays
well, so here's a good career choice for me,in the end everybody has
to earn their bread somehow. So you go to learn violin playing in 24
lessons course, buy violin for dummies book and got a job. You're
doing your job and got payed, than somebody comes asking you do play
Nicolo Paganini Fifth Caprice. Shit man we only do pop music, what the
hell do you need those kind of crup? So continue playing vanilla pop
at work and program at home why the bozo practices Fifth Caprice.
bobi
