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- Subject: RE: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
- Date: 29 MAR 96 23:39:49 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
- Message-ID: <29MAR96.23394913@skyfox.usask.ca>
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- In a previous article, jimcarp@wco.com (Jim Carpenter) wrote:
- >|>>First, to be take seriously as a systems programmer, you must grow a
- >|>>beard.
-
- But remember to shave it off between contracts or you'll never
- get hired.
- And maybe this is why so many excellent female programmers
- have trouble being taken seriously. Do Italian women have an edge
- over other female programmers because of their moustaches ?
-
- >|>And he must wear thick glasses, smoke many cigarettes, thrink coffee
- >|>and coke and eat at least one pizza per day :-))
-
- Real programmers don't "thrink" coffee - they set a hot cup of coffee
- beside their computer, begin to work, and forget about it because they're
- too busy coding. I, for example, don't drink about 8 or 9 cups of cold
- coffee every day. I also pour a lot of warm coke down the drain.
-
- >
- >And watch nothing but The Simpsons, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and
- >Star Trek TNG on television!
-
- Uh uh. Real programmers don't want to spend any of their free time looking
- at anything that even remotely looks like a computer. For the same reason,
- real programmers are lousy at computer games. Real programmers are
- also far too intelligent to be able to stand things like "The Simpsons" and
- "Star Trek (TNG)".
-
- >
- >Oh, and know all the words to every Monty Python sketch too.
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- But they don't recite them in public, so don't think too badly of them.
-
-
- >Jim Carpenter
- >jimcarp@wco.com
- >
-
- Rob Stow
- stow@sask.usask.ca
-