Friday № 15 - Who are the programmers

I think the new year still need to resume the publication of excerpts from the book of programmer zhituhu.

Who are the programmers.

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Over the past 25 years in Russia (I think, like in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other ... From the time described Strugatsky unique programmer -mathematician who solved a serious global problem with sorcerers and magicians, it's been almost half a century since the first PC and Fidonet - 20 years, and now the programmer no longer seems to be exotic, and ...

Many people working in IT, do not like the word ... Dr.. ... Needless to say, the word ... But this is a generalization, and truth - almost every one of us has come a long way and spent time as a collector of the computer ( at least his!), And of course, combined the roles and analyst and tester and supporter, and sysadmin.

Of course, things do not look particularly good in this mixing duties, which took place (and often are ) mainly either from ignorance of IT bosses, employer, or from poverty. Just come to you people, and said - ... And we decided, without thinking about the roles, processes, and allocation of responsibilities. Often it was bloody hard, often impossible, and while overcoming the difficulties of quickly bored, and this was a certain amount of romance.

In fact, we now have a huge army of universal specialists (estimates vary from 0. 5 to 2 million people), whose representatives. is at each facility. Almost all of these people can understand each other when they met to find common ground, share jokes, just as to understand each other this past military service, with its kinky reality.

Name? .

And how would you call the 2 million people? .

The army asked, ... All the more necessary to have a name, that life goes on in IT is much longer than the standard army -life.

Many people insist on using the term ...

And most importantly - recognition of the term ... Yes, it is unpleasant when the architect of a 5 million lines of which ... In the end, with the boss for that matter you can even iff needs to shake some hidden bonus for updating configurations of mental development or trite to convince to buy a new laptop around the department.

And with respect to a particular book is hard to find a term that could be operated as simple and intuitive. Therefore, hereafter I will refer to you, dear colleagues, as a programmer, and I will be a way to call that there was no one hurt.

Programmers are different, blue, white and red?.

Of course, programmers are all different. There is no community of 2 million people, where all people would be the same ( small Chinese cities do not count). We are different in age, knowledge, positions, positions and place of residence - as well as people of all other occupations. But unlike them, we 're all the same, so use the same algorithmic principles.

Of course, one could argue in that spirit that the janitors also use the same shovel, but. spiritual community, they do not form.

to be continued.