{"id":52,"date":"2008-10-21T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/are-you-a-real-programmer-how-can-you-tell-that\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:03:48","slug":"are-you-a-real-programmer-how-can-you-tell-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/are-you-a-real-programmer-how-can-you-tell-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a real programmer? How can you tell that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really amusing for one and all to read.<\/p>\n<p>Machine code is your pseudo code<\/p>\n<p>You trust that by means of a linker or a macro library to make a program is &#8220;dirty&#8221;, a real programmer does not get baffled when the source code get to 6000 lines in one file<\/p>\n<p>You suppose that PC playoffs are a squander of CPU cycles.<\/p>\n<p>While you are at a monetary firm coding for mainframes in mainframe assembly (the manager inform him to code in Assembly rather than machine code so the other &#8216;normal&#8217; programmers may possibly be aware of what is going on)<\/p>\n<p>You construct your individual programming languages and provide them crappy names.<\/p>\n<p>You were not being fond of multicore systems. You accept as true that if you cannot formulate a program to run fast enough on a single core, you are not a programmer.<\/p>\n<p>You will never utilize operating system interrupts &#8230; you make your own.<\/p>\n<p>If your random number generator creates the random numbers from zero to infinity in 5 seconds, you believe it as very slow.<\/p>\n<p>You consider that remarking the source code is for the amateur.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t make use of computers outside of work. You will not have belief on other programmer&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<p>You judge that technologies like PHP, Python or VBA were not a programming language- it is only scripting language.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to use Object Orientation for the reason that it makes your work trouble-free. In any case you wish for a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>C++ and APL programming languages was a toy to you.<\/p>\n<p>Someone point out the languages like VB and JAVA to you, you will give a punch them on the head.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your code has been typed up, it was already optimized.<\/p>\n<p>You get clear of the Back Space key on the Keyboard as you do not make any mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t like to have any book or notepads; it&#8217;s all in your head.<\/p>\n<p>Your programs are not user friendly, even if they are bug free.<\/p>\n<p>You have a nightmare of creating your own CPU for yourself one day and maintain it in your parent&#8217;s garage.<\/p>\n<p>You thought that IDE&#8217;s, Programmer Tools and Syntax Highlighters are for people who do not be familiar with what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p>You return back the computer mouse to the technician, with a screw driver stabbed through it. Real programmers will make use of command prompt only.<\/p>\n<p>If the client does not be fond of what you perform for them, you think that the client is an idiot and you say &#8220;No&#8221; to alter anything.<\/p>\n<p>Who wants friends when you can program your own friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really amusing for one and all to read. Machine code is your pseudo code You trust that by means of a linker or a macro library to make a program is &#8220;dirty&#8221;, a real programmer does not get baffled when the source code get to 6000 lines in one file You suppose that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[64,65,66],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programmer","tag-ides","tag-programmer-tools","tag-syntax-highlighters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/programming-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}