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You know, if I liked hammers, and I didn't do carpentry for the sake of making houses, but just because I liked hammering nails, I might well call myself a hamm
by mquander 16y ago
You know, if I liked hammers, and I didn't do carpentry for the sake of making houses, but just because I liked hammering nails, I might well call myself a hammer carpenter.
Not many carpenters would claim that, but that's because hammers aren't very interesting compared to programming environments.
- raganwald 16y agoThat's a really interesting suggestion. People self-identify for all sorts of reasons, and the pleasure of doing things a certain way is one of them. If you don't like writing queries in SQL, all the arguments in the world about SQL's efficiencies are not going to drag you away from an abstraction you enjoy.
- netcan 16y agoJeez.. so philosophical. People say (description)(profession) to quickly describe what they do to other people. They pick the best description. Long haul truck driver doesn't mean incapable of driving short distances, it means that most days she gets up, gets into a truck and drives a long way. If you're some place that makes outsiders cringe you might get all philosophical about whether the "long haul" or the "truck driver" part of your job description is the heart of the matter, but... no one wants to listen to that: Internet marketers go on about whether internet or marketing are really the heart of what they do. So do leggo artists.