On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:52:59PM -0500, Legatus wrote:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
> >
> >90% of people will be programmers? How so? Or do you mean that only 90%
> >of programmers will be people? :)
> >
>
> There is absolutely no way that the number will ever be the high. Just
> talk to a few programmers, and you will realize they are not people.
> None of them. :L
>
What is programming? Setting a VCR? An answering machine? A coffee pot?
A mechanical light timer?
You get my drift.
A big part of the creation of programming languages has always been to
increase the accessibility of controlling machines. Most of us on this
list can name three or four languages (some of which may still be
around) that were ballyhooed as "the last language you'll ever have to
learn" or the "language that will make everyone a programmer."
Also, I don't really like developers any more than the next man, but
calling them subhuman is just plain unfair to all the good and honest
subhumans out there.
--
Lan Barnes
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too
can become great.
- Mark Twain
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
