Programmers of the past
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I would have been what all of the men in my family have been: a craftsman. My ancestors have been machine operators, tool & die workers, made wooden cigar boxes, and there was probably a wheelwright in there somewhere (given my last name). Interesting; I just noticed that most of us have treated this as if you asked "What job would you have had in times before..." :)
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delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
Interesting; I just noticed that most of us have treated this as if you asked "What job would you have had in times before..."
Yeah, I noticed that too. Very odd. There was a clearly worded spec, but the resultant product was way off base... ;P
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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'd probably have ended up in either medicine (which runs in my family) or coporate finance (my Dad made me promise never to become an accountant!).
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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[^]
Dead. That's what I'd be. There is so much about my body that is barely functional, that, if I was born 50 years earlier, I'd never have lived to be 50. (I'll turn 50 late this month...I hope:omg:) If my body would have survived, I might have been killed as a heretic, since I think so far outside the box so often.
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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.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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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[^]
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Food debugging....sounds fun;P
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Not for Simba!
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They would have been Philosophers, which is to say they would have been BS artists (according to Mel Brooks -> History of the World Part I);P The whole "Did you BS today? No! Did you BS yesterday? No!", goes nicely with the Analysis and Design phase.
I never would have been an electrical engineer; I really don't like that stuff. I like figuring out how to write programs as well as numbers, logic puzzles, and Sudoku's, so I probably would have been some kind of financial analyst who did Sudoku's puzzles for fun. ~The Chad
Respectfully, Chad Johnson Tools Programmer
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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.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
Yeah me too... I have cooked in all kinds of places and put myself through college working at a steakhouse. I don't cook much these days though, not even for myself. If I do, it's cookies or candy or something like that. It wasn't a conscious decision though... it was the job that I could get, and then later I found out I liked it and progressed to higher positions. If I had the choice, I probably would have chosen something else.
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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?
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I've noticed that many programmers are also musicians. There seems to be a correlation between people good with math and an aptitude for music. Not true in my case, but then I never had the chance to take music lessons as a child. So, musicians or accountants seem likely professions. The part of programming I personnally enjoy is debugging. To me it's kinda like solving a good mystery before you get to the end of the book. So maybe I would have been a detective. In reality though, being female, prior to the 1950's, I would probably have been a stay at home mom.
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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[^]
Well, I started out with carpentry, music, and math. So, something to do with one of those.
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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[^]
Accounts section in offices, Chefs, Bank Officers ...
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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.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
I was a restaurant manager (including lots of cooking) before I started programming professionally.
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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[^]