Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A Master Programmer

You can say that you are just a good programmer when you write a computer program for a year.

You can say that you are an experienced programmer when you first write a computer program for a year, then you release it to your clients and then you fix bugs and develop the program for next five years.

You can say that you are a true master programmer when you first write a computer program for a year, then you release it to your clients, then you fix bugs and develop the program for next five years, then you screw something so badly that the version you release makes some huge, ultimate damage to the clients' important data and then you have to release yet another version which has to somehow magically undo the damage you have made with the previous version.

Are you a master programmer yet?

3 comments:

Tito Morais said...

Hello Wiktor, great blog.
Hope someday I will be in this third position. =)
Regards from sunny Saldor, Brazil. From your old company workmate,
Tito Morais

Wiktor Zychla said...

Thanks Tito, I hope you are doing fine. How's your master thesis?

Tito Morais said...

Wiktor, I sent you an email explaining about possibility to implement my thesis in Wroclaw, I don't know if it arrived.
If not, please send me a email to titombo@gmail.com . It's urgent and important for me, I don't have much time to get all papers.
Thank you very much. =)