Three Virtues of Successful Programmers

Posted by Racer on March 25, 2006, at 1:45:00

The Three Virtues of Successful Programmers, according to Larry Wall (the guy who created perl):
Hubris
Laziness
Impatience
Doesn't that make you want to be a programmer?
He's also the one who claimed that perl stood for Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister...
(It doesn't -- it's actually Practical Extraction and Report Language -- but since the guy created the language, I guess we can let him make up silly names for it...)
He's from the generation when geeks were funny. Or maybe that was only the UNIX propeller heads?

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Three Virtues of Successful Programmers Racer 3/25/06
Re: Three Virtues of Successful Programmers deirdrehbrt 3/25/06
Such truth... NikkiT2 3/25/06
But it doesn't mention PROLOG! (nm) » deirdrehbrt Racer 3/25/06
Re: Two things » Racer AuntieMel 3/27/06

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