The Programmer's Caste
The C Programmer
- God consults with the C programmer on every major issue.
- The C programmer can walk on water.
- He programs on a P90 with 8 Meg RAM w/ Mach32. He can program a graphical spreadsheet in about 2 days.
- The C programmer tends to put "()" after every major verb when they talk or write: "are you going() to see() NIN tomorrow? I'll try() to get() tickets!"
The Visual Basic Programmer
- The Visual Basic programmer does lunch with God every day.
- He is an Olympic class swimmer.
- He programs on a 486dx/2 66 with 8 Meg RAM w/ SVGA and can program a good text based spread sheet in a little over a week.
The Turbo Pascal Programmer
- The Turbo Pascal programmer occasionally has a word with God.
- He can swim pretty well.
- He programs on a 486dx 33 with 4Meg RAM and can program a complicated scientific calculator in a week and a half.
- The Turbo Pascal Programmer tends to put "begin" and "end" before every major topic: "begin That new game is awesome, man! end"
The Fortran Programmer
- The Fortran programmer sometimes catches a glimpse of God.
- He manages to keep himself afloat in shallow water.
- He programs on a DEC VAX with a VT100 (he's too manly for a GUI). A Fortran programmer cand do a passable calculation device in a few weeks.
- Nobody really know how Fortran programmers talk because there are so few of them these days.
The QBASIC Programmer
- The QBASIC programmer knows who God is.
- He has trouble avoiding drowning in his own bathtub.
- QBASIC programmer works on a 486sx 25 with 4 Meg RAM. He can write a program that accepts two numbers and adds them together in just under 4 weeks.
The LOGO Progammer
- About the only thing a Logo programmer knows about GOD is that the word is short enough for him to sound out, but he has trouble spelling it.
- He wets himself with a squirt gun.
- He programms on an Apple IIc, and can do a program that puts a box on the screen that some may argue looks like a calculator in about 8 weeks (with help from his teacher).
- The LOGO programmer can't actually talk very well, but instead draws a whole lot of pictures, crayon being their favorite media.
The Assembly Language Programmer
- The assembly language programmer is God.
- He parts the water when he wishes to cross it.
- He programs on what ever he pleases and can do a multi-tasking, multi-user networkable operating system that includes a GUI spreadsheet during his coffee break.