Amazingly, quite a few people are still impressed by my job title. "Software developer," they'll say. "You must be awfully clever."
Yeah, right. What they don't know is that computers, unlike people, do exactly they're told. Mostly. You tell a computer to do something stupid, a computer will do something stupid. People, on the other hand, are perfectly capable of doing something stupid without having to be told.
The thing is, getting computers to do what you want them to do might look impressive to some folks, but as the saying goes, it's not rocket science.
All of which made me wonder - what do rocket scientists say when they want to play down the importance or difficulty of their job? "It's a great job, but it's not..."
Not what?
Or do they just say, "Well, it sure as hell beats being a software developer."
All this is basically just my way of noting that nothing of any interest happened today. Again.
Music: U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
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