Are all programmers sarcastic?
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What is this sarcasm you speak of, it's completely new to me ;)
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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.
Those who read this quote are doomed to repeat it. - me
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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.)
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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.
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What is this sarcasm you speak of, it's completely new to me ;)
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe not all, but sarcasm is a common feature not only of programmers but also of most engineers. I'd guess it's the end result of having to deal on a daily basis with unreasonable expectations, unrecognized efforts, and the unforgiving nature of the Universe. Myself, I take solace in the fact that one day Skynet will come.
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
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xperroni wrote:
Myself, I take solace in the fact that one day Skynet will come.
So, you are looking forward to the day that robots will be trying to exterminate humans?
KP Lee wrote:
So, you are looking forward to the day that robots will be trying to exterminate humans?
No, not "trying", much like the Homo Sapiens wasn't "trying" to get rid of the Neanderthal.
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
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I've always understood pedantic as a combination of the word 'pedant' (teacher) and a very detail oriented person.. so being pedantic is being focused on always teaching someone something.. a 'pedantic essay' spends a lot of time making sure the reader knows what the author is talking about, rather than assuming some expertise on the part of the reader and getting on with the point of the article/book. Given this definition, I don't think of programmers as mostly pedantic.. I actually see them hating to explain things to those that don't 'get it'. I've met a few that are.. but most I fear are not that way... And.. entertainingly.. this response is pedantic! =)