Name: Anonymous 2007-07-21 19:11 ID:tGUK4MVx
They have read SICP but do they have Tangerine Dream albums in their 8-track tape collection to remind them of the days when Expert Enterprise Programmers would not sit outside of the Scalable Mainframes, but inside them like that scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave Thomas from Wendy's penetrates Hal Turner? You cannot be an Expert Programmer without the duck-quack-like moaning of an ARP Odyssey synthesizer playing in your head, like your mind is producing television specials for the early days of PBS on the miracles of science and learning.
BE WARNED OF FAKE EXPERT PROGRAMMERS. THEY ARE NOT REAL EXPERT PROGRAMMERS, BUT FAKE-EXPERTS. You can spot these people if you see any hip-hop CDs in their collection. But is this worse than Wannabe Expert Programmers? They are Wannabes -- they have Boards of Canada albums in their CD collection. CDs! Real Expert Programmers listen to music on audio-equipped oscilloscopes hooked up to 1920s Victrolas graced by Alan Turning himself.
Real Expert Programmers do all of this, in heavy wool jackets with large, leather patches on their elbows while smoking a pipe, poking FORTRAN holes into a punchcard while blindfolded.
BE WARNED OF FAKE EXPERT PROGRAMMERS. THEY ARE NOT REAL EXPERT PROGRAMMERS, BUT FAKE-EXPERTS. You can spot these people if you see any hip-hop CDs in their collection. But is this worse than Wannabe Expert Programmers? They are Wannabes -- they have Boards of Canada albums in their CD collection. CDs! Real Expert Programmers listen to music on audio-equipped oscilloscopes hooked up to 1920s Victrolas graced by Alan Turning himself.
Real Expert Programmers do all of this, in heavy wool jackets with large, leather patches on their elbows while smoking a pipe, poking FORTRAN holes into a punchcard while blindfolded.