Re^2: Programmers are weird

We have regularly scheduled dumps, sometimes several per day.

Numbers like 512 and 8192 look strangely familiar to us; we think kilo equals 1024.

We use the word "code" as if it were something, like water or sand, that can be put in a barrel. We refer to "core" as place name, without an article, like "Newark".

We are horrified by bugs. We openly speak of spending hours "debugging", and don't find it particularly indecorous.

We bounce our daemons, and fork our children.

the lowliest monk

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Re^3: Programmers are weird
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 30, 2005 at 14:21 UTC

Even weirder, we have a tendency to store our dumps in extremely safe places for very long times. And we even practice and test whether our dumps can be restored!

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

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Re^4: Programmers are weird

by apotheon (Deacon) on Dec 31, 2005 at 14:02 UTC

$whirled = whir($peas);

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
- apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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Re^3: Programmers are weird
by blazar (Canon) on Sep 06, 2005 at 11:07 UTC

Numbers like 512 and 8192 look strangely familiar to us; we think kilo equals 1024.

perl -le 'print 1<<24'

perl -le 'print ~0'

Ouch! Now that I'm staring at them I fear I will learn them by heart too... ;-)

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Re^4: Programmers are weird

by seattlejohn (Deacon) on Sep 11, 2005 at 18:50 UTC

1<<24

When I rattled off that number a fraction of a second after his asking, without my calculator out, a bunch of folks in the lecture hall turned and looked at me like I was Rain Man or something. Of course, I was just lucky; I couldn't have done it if it hadn't been a reasonably common power of 2.

$perlmonks{seattlejohn} = 'John Clyman';

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Re^4: Programmers are weird

by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 10, 2005 at 21:12 UTC

In fact I know the entire 2^x sequence for 0 <= x <= 18 by heart… Ah, the joys of programming assembler. :-)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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