#codemonkey
RR is a disgruntled PHP coder. Our conversation opens with “ FML man. This PHP is an ocean that I can’t cross in this life. ”
me: “ you know, last night I photo-shopped a donkey head onto a playmate.”
V is an student at Stanford pursuing a math program and she rants “ I just realized I am so damn good at coding and all. I should have picked a major in CS with a specialization in coding. My BF’s already a code monkey in training, so I thought why make it a family of coders and hence gave up on coding”
me : “ the word code has already appeared five times in the past one minute.”
M is this true blue coder types but her current job duties don’t let her do that. She rants about the want for creative freedom. “ The current nature of my job is monotonous and so unexciting for my grey matter. I could train a monkey to do my job and It could do it flawlessly.
me: “ The image of a monkey hunched across a key board typing away to glory, sipping mountain dew/munching frito lays is not so hard to imagine. Lol. So where was I, yeah,Sarah Jessica Parker looks gorgeous in the Sex and the City 2 because it was air brushed yada yada…”
Found this on a forum. In response to the question “Which programming language should I learn first?” - one user responds:
Depends.
To program in an expressive and powerful language: Python
To get a website up quickly: PHP
To mingle with programmers who call themselves “rockstars”: Ruby.
To really learn to program: C.
To achieve enlightenment: Scheme.
To feel depressed: SQL
To drop a chromosome: Microsoft Visual Basic
To get a guaranteed, mediocre, but well paying job writing financial applications in a cubicle under fluorescent lights: Java.
To do the same thing with certifications and letters after your name: C#
To achieve a magical sense of childlike wonder that you have a hard time differentiating from megalomania: Objective CI could go on… but I’m not feeling hateful enough today.
P.S. The song ‘Code Monkey’ by Jonathan Coulton.
