Please elaborate a little on the "expert Programmer" part of the Meditation. What exactly is an "expert Programmer"? Is this human being - may I presume that you are refering to persons - like a Larry Wall on Perl or a Dennis Ritchie on C that do know each and every little tidbit of their programming languages because they made them? I do not believe it because programming languages, programs and - to a lesser extent - egg beaters always find someone so imaginative to use them in ways far distant from their purported purpose as to astonish their own creators.
So then, who? Does Batman program? Who can solve any problem you can think of using programs and thus be called "expert Programmer"? Me, I want a program to write programs, please...
Sorry. I do not mean to be sarcastic or caustic or whatever. Just tend to believe that in the same sense that is just silly to conceive an "expert human being", so the idea of an "expert Programmer" is difficult for me to grasp. After being in the trenches for 25 years or so, I still try to learn whatever I can from each and every problem I met, no matter how battered up it may look at first sight - you know, ye-olde-merge-sort or whatever - because, for me, to live is just to learn.
Do you want to live forever?

In reply to RE: Never be an expert Programmer by hexram
in thread Never be an expert Programmer by RichardH

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