The Evolution of a Programmer

Going through some of the old emails found this… Sorry if it is too long of the post but it nicely shows some truth about our life.

  • High School/Jr.High
    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
    20 END
  • First year in College
    program Hello(input, output)
    begin
       writeln('Hello World')
    end.
  • Senior year in College
    (defun hello
    (print
       (cons 'Hello (list 'World))))
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Programmers and temperaments

If you ever studied psychology then you are familiar with different types of the human temperaments. This term was first introduced by Claudius Galen but then widely used everywhere.

A few years back programmer’s “temperaments” definition was introduced…

Going through different blogs I have found the following entry which discuss types of the development processes seen in different organizations – do not take it seriously, but as you can see in every joke there is a bit of the truth.

And this reminded me about something from the past: definition of different types of programmers or programmer’s “temperaments”.
I have tried to find English version of it but did not succeed. Instead I found something different Code and Personality by Kevin Marks & Maf Vosburgh. Take a minute and read it.

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