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Pedants R us (was RE: Language change and code breaks)

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Sun Jul 22 21:21:11 EDT 2001 
> >Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >> In my usage, a "programmer" is someone who is a
> >> professional code-slinger, 8-12 hours a day.
> >
> >Eek - I hope you don't really mean that last subclause!
> 
> A *real* programmer gets in a good six hours code-slinging in their
> sleep - that period when all the hard problems find their neat
> original solutions. Apart from the ones that get scribbled on a
> beer-mat, that is ;-)

Nah - all the best solutions are worked out in the shower.

I am currently campaigning for all programmer's cubicles at my place of work
to have showers installed. I predict that productivity will increase 5-fold.

Tim Delaney
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