The Ideal Programmer
From this tangled mess, it’s clear that we’re a strange breed. Which of these code monkeys should we aspire to be? What code monkey cocktail will create the Ideal Programmer?
Unfortunately, in the Real World, there are no perfect programmers—the beast is an urban legend. Therefore, this is an academic question, but finding an answer will give us something to aim for.
The fabled Ideal Programmer is part:
- Politician
He must be diplomatic, able to deal with the peccadilloes of these weird code monkeys and the many, many more creatures that inhabit the software factory—managers, testers, support, customers, users, and so on.
- Relational
He works well with others. He isn’t territorial about his code and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty ...
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