Coders

“As the coder Danny Hillis once noted, ‘A few hundred years ago in my native New England, an accurate description of my occupation would have gotten me burned at the stake.”

Aardige kijk op het ontstaan van, en de aard van het vak van programmeur, zeker leuk voor niet-programmeurs. Maar ook voor programmeurs zitten er wel wat juweeltjes in:

“Software firms gave often cultivated an air of sorcery, relying on the inscrutability of their work to baffle and enchant customers, while being in reality nothing more than a creaky pile of PHP scripts”...