[PRL] Stevey's Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food

[Mitchell Wand]

Long-winded, but mildly entertaining.  --Mitch

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html

This is another one of those blog topics I've been sitting on for way too
> long, trying to find a polite way of saying something fundamentally
> impolite. I don't see a way to do it. So: you stand a good chance of being
> offended by this blog entry. (Hey, just don't say I didn't warn ya.)
>
> I've turned off blog comments, incidentally, because clever evil people
> have figured out how to beat captchas using non-algorithmic approaches, and
> I don't have the bandwidth to police spam myself. Sorry.
>
> I don't want to give you a heart attack, so I'm going to give you the
> gentle-yet-insistent executive summary right up front. If you can make it
> through my executive summary without a significant increase in heart rate,
> then you're probably OK. Otherwise, you might consider drinking heavily
> before reading this, just like people did in the old movies when they needed
> their leg sawed off. That's what I'm doing, in any case (drinking, that is,
> not sawing my leg off).
>
> *Gentle, yet insistent executive summary:* If you don't know how compilers
> work, then you don't know how computers work. If you're not 100% sure
> whether you know how compilers work, then you don't know how they work.
>
> You have to *know* you know, you know.
>
> In fact, Compiler Construction is, in my own humble and probably
> embarrassingly wrong opinion, the second most important CS class you can
> take in an undergraduate computer science program.
>
> Because every deep-dive I've attempted on this topic over the past year or
> so has failed utterly at convincing me after I sobered up, I'm going to
> stage this production as a, erm, stage production, with N glorious, er,
> parts, separated by intermissions. So without further ado...
>
> Actually, that sounds like way too much work. So I'll just rant. That's
> what you paid good money to hear anyway, right? I promise to make so much
> fun of other people that when I make fun of you, you'll hardly notice.
>
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