Virtues Of An Effective Programmer

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The Virtues Of An Effective Programmer

1. Be Lazy in an industrious way.
2. Be Impatient in a very patient way.
3. Be Huberistic in a very humble way.

It is said that Hobbits would make great programmers:

1. Persistence - Stubbornness to keep slogging through when the going gets rough,
2. Smart - Can Outwit Enemies,
3. Social - Can deal with a group of team members that may think very different than you,
4. Literate - Be able to read and write documentation
5. Slightly Insane - Able to view the long term while dealing with the problem at hand (able to work with details and abstractions at the same time)

This is a spin off the Virtues stated by Larry Wall; an American computer programmer, author, and creator of Perl.