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What is a "true programmer" supposed to be?

• fiberhood 4y ago
  Paul Graham explains it in his essays [1] Dan Ingalls is the best example of a true top programmer [2][3] (and all his 50 years or programmes can be examined [7]). Alan Kay [4] wrote extensively about good programmers. [5][6] You can hire a few true programmers (some of the best programmers in history) with us! Morphle {at} ziggo dot nl [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html [2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=dan+ingalls&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=dan+... [3] https://codersatwork.com/dan-ingalls.html https://codersatwork.com/dan-ingalls.html [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay#Reinventing_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay#Reinventing_programmi... [5] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006002_nsfprop.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006002_nsfprop.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130508090431/http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130508090431/http://www.vpri.o... [6] The STEPS papers and most of the others at http://www.vpri.org/writings.php http://www.vpri.org/writings.php [7] https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/ https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/