Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!lanl!beta.lanl.gov.!mikeg From: mikeg@c3.c3.lanl.gov (Michael P. Gerlek) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 90 16:12:17 GMT References: <9007081641.AA25236@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <101150008@hpcvlx.cv. <26bcf4e8-214.21comp.misc-1@oldcolo.UUCP> Sender: news@lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Lines: 20 In-reply-to: markh@oldcolo.UUCP's message of 6 Aug 90 04:43:13 GMT In article <26bcf4e8-214.21comp.misc-1@oldcolo.UUCP>, markh@oldcolo.UUCP (Mark Hampson) writes: > I think it is quite amazing that so many programmers are anarchists. > It would seem to me that people who must work in such an orderly fashion > would be straight-laced and fly right types. [...] Obviously you haven't worked with many programmers :-) Seriously, although this is well off the subject, a lot of people have looked into the mindset of the programmer (hacker ethic, need for control over environment, urge to fight the system on own terms, etc, etc). Programmers are pretty off-the-wall people, by and large. Psychologists love us. [ M.P.Gerlek (mikeg@lanl.gov) - [ Los Alamos Nat'l Lab / Merrimack College - [ Disclaimer: Yes, Mom, I'll play nice. - [ "My other machine's an XMP." -