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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Computer programmer
		A programmer can be one who develops and maintains software on a large mainframe system or one who develops software primarily for use on personal computers.
		Programmers often have or project an image of individualist geekdom, resistance to suits (referring to both business suits and 'The Establishment'), controls and unionisation.
		Programmers are employed in almost every industry, but the largest concentrations are in computer systems design and related services and in software publishers, which includes firms that write and sell software.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Computer-programmer (413 words)

	How to Report Bugs Effectively
		There is no point in swearing at the programmer or being deliberately unhelpful: it may be their fault and your problem, and you might be right to be angry with them, but the bug will get fixed faster if you help them by supplying all the information they need.
		You want the programmer to run their own copy of the program, do the same things to it, and make it fail in the same way.
		If you give the programmer a long list of inputs and actions, and they fire up their own copy of the program and nothing goes wrong, then you haven't given them enough information.
	www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~sgtatham/bugs.html (3436 words)

	What is XP
		Programmers develop software by writing tests first, then software that fulfills the requirements reflected in the tests.
		An XP project is steered by a dedicated individual who is empowered to determine requirements, set priorities, and answer questions as the programmers have them.
		For a team to work effectively in pairs, and to share ownership of all the code, all the programmers need to write the code in the same way, with rules that make sure the code communicates clearly.
	www.xprogramming.com /what_is_xp.htm (1027 words)

	Why Learn to Program? - Cprogramming.com
		Programmers are famous for being lazy--in fact, being lazy is one reason people are drawn to programing.
		Programmers have written all sorts of simple-to-use tools that make life easier for them--especially tools to manage the complexity of creating software (for instance, tools to help keep track of all the ways of making a program, or debugers to help improve their understanding of a running program).
		Programmers, on the other hand, are familiar with the limits of the machine--what happens inside the computer when it takes several minutes to open large files, why a particular security hole is a problem, and why it's so difficult to get large-scale software projects right.
	www.cprogramming.com /whyprogram.html (693 words)

	Stevey's Blog Rants: Get Famous By Not Programming
		Most of the famous-ish programmers I respect have actually made their impact on me through writing, and it's usually just prose, with maybe a little code interspersed.
		It's not easy to separate the two, because their quality as programmers (however you choose to measure that) probably had at least some direct impact on the company's ultimate success.
		Those probably helped a lot with getting famous in coder circles, but I agree the primary reason must be his phenomenal success and constant stream of stunning work.
	steve-yegge.blogspot.com /2006/07/get-famous-by-not-programming.html (3824 words)

	Famous Computer Programmers
		Famous Computer Programmers: Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Co-Founder of Pixar Studios Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World...
		Scott Rosenberg reports on a panel of famous computer programmers from 20 years ago (Salon subscription or free ad-supported day pass required), who recently re-convened to discuss the...
		For those whose browsers don't permit acronym code, the phrase "herding cats" is highlighted because it is from a famous quote: Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and...
	www.computers.computeracme.com /famouscomputerprogrammers.html (281 words)

	Great Hackers
		He wrote about productivity in lines of code: the best programmers can solve a given problem in a tenth the time.
		Really there should be two articles: one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one about what to do if you're not.
		The hackers who become famous tend to become famous by random accidents of PR.
	www.paulgraham.com /gh.html (4902 words)

	Coding Horror: Does Writing Code Matter?
		Programmers should be great speakers, great salesman, great lovers, and coincidentally, we should also get in touch with our feminine side (or masculine side for the women).
		Every problem may be different, but in general, most programmers will get farther finding a good, well-illustrated and described example that they can modify to their needs, and the people who write these are generally the ones regarded, perhaps with some justification, as the icons of a given software field.
		Unless this programmer comes out of the corner and wants to be in some difficult pioneering project with good team, and then having lots of communication with the team and other people.
	www.codinghorror.com /blog/archives/000710.html (6923 words)

	Hitting the High Notes - Joel on Software
		It's rather hard to measure programmer productivity; almost any metric you can come up with (lines of debugged code, function points, number of command-line arguments) is trivial to game, and it's very hard to get concrete data on large projects because it's very rare for two programmers to be told to do the same thing.
		The real trouble with using a lot of mediocre programmers instead of a couple of good ones is that no matter how long they work, they never produce something as good as what the great programmers can produce.
		And style is not something that 100 programmers at Microsoft or 200 industrial designers at the inaptly-named Creative are going to be able to achieve, because they don't have Jonathan Ive, and there aren't a heck of a lot of Jonathan Ives floating around.
	www.joelonsoftware.com /articles/HighNotes.html (2925 words)

	Famous Programmers' School
		Despite popular myths, some programmers actually do earn a living doing the work they love.
		Other, less fortunate programmers work in their spare time at home while watching television.
		They say a good programmer can write 20 lines of effective program per day.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~shuford/famous_programmers_school.html (657 words)

	Famous Accounting Software-Client Server
		The FAMOUS database resides on a central server, while the FAMOUS application resides on the client.
		This "division of labor" allows FAMOUS programmers to put application logic, or "code" wherever it makes the most sense, and utilizes your network resources to their fullest.
		FAMOUS is well positioned to take advantage of future changes in distributed processing technology.
	www.famoussoftware.com /version_6/client_server.html (318 words)

	Classifying Credits (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Programmers are the technical wizards who weave bits into code, and code into games.
		Working out algorithms to simulate a reaction as life-like as possible is considered one of the most challenging tasks for a programmer, and good artificial intelligence is accordingly rare.
		Persons who deal with the designers and programmers on a regular basis and are helpful in any way are credited with Support.
	www.mobygames.com /info/credits_classification (3466 words)

	Programming veterans ponder past, future
		March 19, 2004 (InfoWorld) A panel of programmers famous for applications such as VisiCalc and Excel and the Macintosh operating system shared their thoughts on where programming has been and where it's going during a panel session at the Software Development Conference & Expo West 2004 event in Santa Clara, Calif., on Tuesday.
		He also remarked that early programmers expected their software to become obsolete and to be rewritten, since it was intended for a particular computer.
		Programmers have only scratched the surface of the ubiquitous network, he added.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2004/0,4814,91410,00.html (362 words)

	Real Programmers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The archetypal `real programmer' likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps.
		Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so.
		Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers --- because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it.
	www.amara.com /science/p.html (425 words)

	Go To Statement Considered Harmful
		For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of go to statements in the programs they produce.
		For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.
		The main point is that the values of these indices are outside programmer's control; they are generated (either by the write-up of his program or by the dynamic evolution of the process) whether he wishes or not.
	www.acm.org /classics/oct95 (1231 words)

	The Old Joel on Software Forum - World Class Programmer in 5 Years ?
		Yes, it is possible to become a world class programmer in 5 years or less of industry experience, but probably not in 5 years since writing their first program.
		Those guys who created world famous applications at a young age were programming on their own from their teenage years or before.
		Bjarne Stroustroup is famous for inventing the Rube Goldberg contraption that is C++.
	discuss.fogcreek.com /joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=88707 (2275 words)

	oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Learning Perl, Fourth Edition
		Written by three prominent members of the Perl community who each have several years of experience teaching Perl around the world, this edition has been updated to account for all the recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.8.
		One of the famous quotes from Larry Wall (the creator of Perl) about Perl is that its design goal is "to make easy tasks easy and difficult tasks possible." Learning Perl makes the simple task of learning Perl easy and the task of becoming a Perl programmer possible."
		"The Perl programming language is everywhere in the Net; people write code in Perl who've never thought of using any other tool, and programmers with C++ chops still pick Perl to write those little utilities that help them tweak their C code.
	www.oreilly.com /catalog/learnperl4 (1151 words)

	The road to better programming: Chapter 5
		OOP is an essential addition to every programmer's toolkit, and a very useful technique for expanding the range of problems that may be solved with Perl.
		For instance, Perl is happy to allow the programmer to automatically create variables if they were not previously declared (though this is not encouraged, and can in fact be prevented with the use of the highly recommended "use strict" pragma).
		Only then will every programmer commit to using that interface instead of erratic print statements because they will realize that the investment of learning that interface will not be wasted when the next error logging function comes along.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/library/l-road5.html (3319 words)

	The road to better programming: Chapter 5
		OOP is an essential addition to every programmer's toolkit, and a very useful technique for expanding the range of problems that may be solved with Perl.
		For instance, Perl is happy to allow the programmer to automatically create variables if they were not previously declared (though this is not encouraged, and can in fact be prevented with the use of the highly recommended "use strict" pragma).
		Only then will every programmer commit to using that interface instead of erratic print statements because they will realize that the investment of learning that interface will not be wasted when the next error logging function comes along.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/library/l-road5.html (3327 words)

	Computerworld > Programmer veterans ponder past, future
		A panel of programmers famous for applications such as VisiCalc and Excel and the Apple Computer Macintosh operating system mused on where programming has been and where it is going during a panel session at the Software Development Conference & Expo West 2004 event in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday.
		-->A panel of programmers famous for applications such as VisiCalc and Excel and the Apple Computer Macintosh operating system mused on where programming has been and where it is going during a panel session at the Software Development Conference and Expo West 2004 event in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday.
		Programmers have only scratched the surface of the ubiquitous network, he said.
	computerworld.co.nz /news.nsf/default/ED3D944EFC4E4DE9CC256E5B00634421 (494 words)

	CNN.com - From science and computers, a new face of Jesus - Dec. 26, 2002
		This representation is quite different from the typical lithe, long-haired, light-skinned and delicate-featured depiction of the man Christians consider the son of God.
		Israeli and British forensic anthropologists and computer programmers got together to create the face featured in the 1.2-million circulation magazine, which occasionally veers from its usual coverage of motors and tools to cover the merger of science and religion.
		This new conceptualization of Jesus is based in large part on the work of Richard Neave, a medical artist retired from the University of Manchester in England.
	www.cnn.com /2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/index.html (566 words)

	Why software still stinks - Salon
		Dobb's Journal) that celebrated Lammers' book, seven of the 19 original subjects of "Programmers at Work" lined up on stage to talk about what's changed in software over the past two decades -- and demonstrate that they have lost none of their cantankerous edge.
		In "Programmers at Work," Lammers told the crowd, "I looked at the programmer as an individual on a quest to create something new that would change the world." Certainly, the panel's group lived up to that billing: it included
		Most successful programmers are at heart can-do engineers who are optimistic that every problem has a solution.
	www.salon.com /tech/col/rose/2004/03/19/programmers_at_work/index.html (704 words)

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	www.programmersheaven.com /c/login/register_agreement.asp (1715 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Famous Programmers
		This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.
		Edsger Dijkstra - early programmer, later a computer scientist
		Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines[?])
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fa/Famous_Programmers (299 words)

	Dear Editor
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		I know that you are nowadays often taken for granted, and that many programmers consider you a relic of an older age.
		Creating an editor was a no mean feat; the (now famous) programmers who brought your cousins to life, Bill Joy and Richard Stallman, had to overcome the limitations of a small address space, slow terminal lines and CPUs, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the numerous mutually incompatible terminals.
	www.spinellis.gr /pubs/jrnl/2005-IEEESW-TotT/html/v22n2.html (1527 words)

	rc3.org: 10 questions for other programmers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There's an interesting list of 10 questions for programmers that a guy named Stiff sent out to some famous programmers.
		However, some of the greatest and most brilliant programmers I've known studied math rather than computer science.
		A short story that captures everything good about programming is The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer.
	www.rc3.org /2006/08/10_questions_fo.php (583 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
		When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide.
		Now in its Second Edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules.
		Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=54591686&srchTerms=0974514055&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (389 words)

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