the real programmers are the ones fighting ulcers and wake up at midnight.
No Anangwe. On the contrary, for their own good and that of their loved ones these guys are cut for a different profession. Or same profession with a slight change of attitude towards life. Unless there's a pun I missed there? I think we ought to erase this picture from our minds that a programmer (a good one) is a guy (always a guy) without a life - he is unmarried; he couldnt even date the geeky-girl; he is heavily unkempt; sometimes suicidal; zero social skills; he speaks machine-code or meme, either way not coherent to the average/normal human; ath31st or w0rse etc
The really good programmers I have met, were an easy hilarious offline bunch. And some are ladies, very chic-ly !
While at it, check out the Perl inventor guy.
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