[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Michael Potter]

I call it an airplane book because it is not the kind of book that I would
read at my desk or try to learn something...  it is a book that I can pick
up and put down like i would on a trip.

It has been 15 years since I read it so I can't answer your question about
whether the author answers questions.

One thing stands out...  In his research he found that while debugging one
bug a developer will find and fix other bugs.  he proposed that when QA
finds a bug they should just tell the developer that there are still bugs
and then the developer has to continue to look for bugs until he stumbles
on the bug that QA has found.  I don't think that would work that well in
practice, but some "genius" were to give that scheme a catchy name they
could make a selling books.

My advise for anyone who is learning to program is to pick a problem and
try to solve it.  try to do it in such a way that one is only learning one
new thing at a time.


On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael, flipped through the first few pages of the book on Amazon. The
> author seems to raise good questions. Does he answer them? I'd like to move
> forward in my coding skills but seem to be hitting blocks. Trying to
> understand the mental game so I can adjust and move forward.
>
> On 06/30/17 16:59, Michael Potter wrote:
>
>> "Perl, once my language of choice, now makes me physically nauseous."
>> +100.  I curse the day I started to learn Perl.
>>
>> This book is a very interesting book.  Good for an airplane:
>> https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-
>> Silver-Anniversary/dp/0932633420
>>
>> I think in C.
>>
>> I am learning R and golang right now.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com <mailto:
>> leamhall at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Skipping over the long term coders who can do anything with
>>     assembler, I'm trying to root out some personality thoughts on
>>     programming languages. I'll have some alone time and would like to
>>     make some coding progress; things have slowed while I learn Ansible.
>>
>>     What has my interest is the mental perception I have of different
>>     languages. Ruby, and to a slightly lesser extent PHP, are just fun.
>>     Go, and C, are more academic and I find them powerful and dreary.
>>     Python is somewhere in the middle and Perl, once my language of
>>     choice, now makes me physically nauseous.
>>
>>     Does anyone else have this perception, even if the reaction to the
>>     same languages is different? More to the point, what can be done to
>>     alter the personal reception of a language? Ruby makes me want to
>>     code, C makes me want to sleep. Python makes me read e-mail to
>> recover.
>>
>>     Leam
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