Programmers of the past
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
I would very likely have been a lawyer. I am something of a pedant and stickler for technicalities. I was inspired in high school when I read Dickens' David Copperfield, and the firm of proctors he joined. We lived in proctor street at the time, and it seemed a little like a message to me. Stupidly I allowed myself to be dissuaded by a friend who tried studying law after school, and I took up something I knew a lot about and was interesting. Now that I am studying law, I cannot see how anyone can find anything boring about it.
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Well, let's see... I was a professional musician, and when I got tired of boxed macaroni & cheese I next spent a decade teaching sales. In 1988 I realized I couldn't continue to stay drunk all the time (suggested for the first career, required for the second) and since PCs had now been in existence for a few years, I decided to become a programmer. And now, of course, I'm working on the next career, "life after programming." :-D
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
town drunk - like Otis on the Andy Griffith show ? mad scientist ? telemarketer! faith healer! numismatist! wild-eyed anarchist! pugilist! bovine insemination technician! investigative frotteurist! super-villain! -- modified at 10:18 Thursday 1st March, 2007
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town drunk - like Otis on the Andy Griffith show ? mad scientist ? telemarketer! faith healer! numismatist! wild-eyed anarchist! pugilist! bovine insemination technician! investigative frotteurist! super-villain! -- modified at 10:18 Thursday 1st March, 2007
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Chris Losinger wrote:
town drunk
:laugh: See above. Solidarity, brother! :-D
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
My first thought was directing traffic. I had a professor in college who always used the 4 cars stop at a 4 way stop scenario all the freaking time. I would probably stick with photography or go to medical school. Maybe I would just join the circus.
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Likely the the exact same thing that most of them are now - unappreciated people that do all of the hard thinking and hard work that other people higher up the food chain get all the credit and cash for. :) Peace!
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
I definately would have been a composer. Probably a mediocre one, obsessed with the fact that another composer was so much more talented than I was. After many failed schemes to get ahead, It would finally be too much for me and I would scheme to kill... Oh wait, I saw that in a movie. Maybe I would have been a poor Irish stowaway on a large early 20th century cruise liner when it hits an Iceberg...
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Most likely, I'd be a vagabond.
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
I don't know. I really cannot imagine anything else. I would probably be jobless.
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I'd've probably been some sort of engineer. I'd guess it's the most common degree among my greybeard coworkers.
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I grew a beard when I was 26, and it had two solid white strips in it that looked like a Fu Manchu. Apparently I was too impatient to wait and skipped right past the grey period at an early age. :-D
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What roles in society do you think most of today's software developers would have occupied in times before the electronic computer existed?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
Just beat me to it. I was about to ask "What would've been your profession if comupters were never invented?" Yours look almost the same. So I give up. :) And my reply for your post: Not sure about others, but I'd have become a painter :-D drawing beautiful objects. Remember Dicaprio - Titanic? :rolleyes:
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I don't know. I really cannot imagine anything else. I would probably be jobless.
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chef ( as in a restaurant chef ) why ? Because a developing a recipe is like developing a program, one must find a "solution" to a "problem", abstracted to the actual running or cooking of the recipe which is cooked by a cook. A recipe is the source code and the cook ( and the kitchen ) is the compiler and computer. and remember, garbage in garbage out apply.
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