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Yes of course and don't believe the politically-correct or politically-motivated nonsense of "everyone can program". If you have paid any attention to the soci
by borplk 10y ago
Yes of course and don't believe the politically-correct or politically-motivated nonsense of "everyone can program".
If you have paid any attention to the society you can see the different classes of personalities. Some of them, naturally, are polar opposites.
For lack of a better word the "artsy" types are generally not "cut out to program".
The people that are cut out to program are generally in a small subset of the "thinking" types.
I know I'm generalising but that's the point, you can almost never state something about a large population and have it hold true or false in all cases so exceptions exist but they are negligible.
Try explaining binary to that kid in your school that loved ballet dancing and theater. You can see a part of them die in their eyes in the first 15 seconds.
Try it with that other nerdy kid that keeps to himself and you see his eyes shine as he has the ah-ha moment. Chances are he doesn't see "the point" of dancing, too.
These differences exist and they are everywhere all around us from a young age to adulthood. Denying it doesn't help anybody.
- itamarst 10y agoTotal bullshit. I've worked with sysadmins who used to be film students. I know programmers who love musical theater. Some people have innate abilities that make them better programmers, yes. But they have nothing to do with arbitrary cultural groupings tied to your particular country or social class, which apparently you think are universal.
- borplk 10y agoThe general pattern is there as I stressed of course exceptions exist and will always exist. You will find more programmers in a random sample of "nerdy/thinking" personality types than "artsy" ones. And you will find more musicians among artsy ones than the nerds. The cultural aspects can define things such as the type of activities that the people participate in but those broad groups (creatives & non-creatives) exist in all cultures.
- RUG3Y 10y agoSome of the best programmers I know are also musicians. I think you carry some assumptions that should be challenged.
- borplk 10y agoSure, I do too. As I said exceptions exist. Existence of exceptions doesn't invalidate the broader pattern. Which group would you say is more likely to have more (current or one-day-to-be) programmers in it? A group of loud extroverted cheer leaders or the folks from the chess club? Virtually everyone would say the folks from the chess club. Except those who are self-conscious about being politically correct. Those would say they have NO IDEA! It's completely random. Maybe a few Linus Torvalds would come out of the cheer leading team. Look, I'm not arguing about specific cases and exceptions. I'm talking about the GENERAL pattern which exists and is the basis for the myriad of stereotypes that everyone is aware of.
- chmln 10y agoYou've got a point, but notice how they're programmers who are also musicians, not musicians who are also programmers. I think that's what he implied by the "artsy" types :)