Are all programmers sarcastic?

[Nagy Vilmos]

I'm never sar-car-stick

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[Fabio Franco]

The only way a programmer can be non sarcastic is if his software has no users. If his software has no users, he is not a programmer.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[Ygnaiih]

You do an elegant bit of coding that saves the day and then the team of non-programmers takes credit for it. Then they tell you that pointing that out is negative and we are not permitted to be negative. I say to you, “Sarcasm is a survival tool.”

[AccessDeveloper]

Sarcastic is hating. I don't hate, I forgive. I'm not competitive. I don't play Win-Lose. It's win-win or no deal.

[BrainiacV]

It's a defense mechanism for all the crap we have to put up with from non-programmers (e.g. managers)

Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

[ducadmo]

all programmers employ implicit sarcasting. Explicit sarcasting is employed only by those who don't care about information loss or those who have realized there is no spoon - only forks.

[VE2]

No, not all. I worked for about 20 years with a large group of programmers, and one year this one guy was at times pleasant.

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[Matt McGuire]

What is this sarcasm you speak of, it's completely new to me ;)

[Yortw]

I don't know, but I'm more interested in whether all programmers are pedantic?

[Mark Whybird]

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[Mark Whybird]

Those who read this quote are doomed to repeat it. - me

[Erik Rude]

That's off topic - start a new thread

[richard_k]

He says.. waving the metaphorical red cape in front of the angry bull..

[KP Lee]

All humans are taught how to use sarcasm. Some humans manage to withhold being sarcastic. Last I heard, all programmers who count (effectively write new code) are human. Therefore I would say that "All programmers are sarcastic" is a false statement. Only 99.999% of them are sarcastic. (That includes me, but I think in this post I'm just sardonic. Didn't revisit that last word in a dictionary so I hope its usage is correct.)

[KP Lee]

That's "... the metaphorical angry bull" :)

[KP Lee]

Yortw wrote:

I'm more interested in whether all programmers are pedantic?

Don't you need to be pedantic to have the patience to learn to program? Pedantic people exhibit huge patience to be with themselves and I think that might be transferred into programming skills.

[KP Lee]

Matt McGuire wrote:

What is this sarcasm you speak of...

demonstrating one of the skills programmers have.

[KP Lee]

You mean when someone is sarcastic they aren't pleasant? I could have sworn I've seen people grinning while I'm in full sarcastic mode. Of course I wasn't talking at them at the time. Being sarcastic and conversational seem to be mutually exclusive for me.

[KP Lee]

Doesn't the spoon exist because you think it does?

[KP Lee]

If you explicitly cast a sarcastic object, what can you cast it to? (Besides "object" of course.) That's a property of a human object not a derived object of one.