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My mother is a programmer, quite frankly the best programmer I have ever met. But she doesn't like computers and says she longs for the old days when she would
by lionheart 17y ago
My mother is a programmer, quite frankly the best programmer I have ever met. But she doesn't like computers and says she longs for the old days when she would write out her program on a piece of paper, hand it to the technicians and get a print out of the results a day later.
- asimjalis 17y agoI am curious: does she edit her programs on Windows or Mac? The reason I ask is that I felt the same way until recently.
- lionheart 17y agoWindows. Although I doubt using a Mac would change her mind, even if I could convince her to switch. It's kind of ironic, but she is completely like the clueless mothers everybody else complains about when it comes to technology. She needs help installing anything and I had to even set up her iPod for her. However, she is a phenomenal programmer because of her logical thought processes. She never planned on becoming a programmer, she wanted to be a mathematician and that is what her degree is in. When she graduated, there was a position for an "applied mathematician" and she was hired. Applied mathematics turned out to be programming and so that's what she became.