A Quote by Tom Van Vleck

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — © Tom Van Vleck
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.
Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.
GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
It is a shame that homebrew development can't be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work, to be contrasted with the high level web and application work that so many entry level people start with.
Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers.
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.
It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.
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