I was really proud of myself for advancing from IT Support to Web Development, but it seems there's an entire hierarchy of programmers and I'm at the bottom... just below game programmers.
So where do I go from here, what do I aspire to?
Where are all the "real" programmers?
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Anonymous2012-05-10 17:41
Little lamb, doth ye calcketh thine ass?
(that means learn functional progamming, by the way)
The real programmers are too busy staring at stock charts, having coffee and reading the Economics section of the newspaper after deploying some scalable factories for their robust client-centered enterprise social cloud-enabled billing system
It goes AI research > general CS research > cryptography > kernel hacking > any userland development in real languages > iPhone development > any userland development in Java, Sepples, or Cocktothorpe > web development.
Imageboard coders > Shitty bird games > Spy code cracking > LISP > finding IP addresses > zoom in and enhance images > General iPhone > Microsoft Excel > PHP6 > AI research = FPS game research > Enterprise 6502 asm code > PHP4 > Special CS research > General CS research > JS kopipe > This-is-computer-that-is-mouse-and-keyboard CS research > HTML > COBOL
being able to create your own tools is good
being able to adapt the tools you use is better
getting the job done is gold
there's no real hierarchy, some things are harder than others but who's to say the wise men won't choose easier jobs? all programming really is is moving data from one place to another, maybe a map or a filter... there's no need to get all academic about it when you just want to make the rent. I guess I have respect for robotics engineers, or people doing semantic research, but I would never want to trade my job for theirs: it would involve years of extra studies, and for what? a deeper understanding?
>>11
The be-all and end-all of literally anything is whether or not it makes you money. What a lovely outlook on life.
You'll never be more than mediocre at anything you do.