Old Programming Joke

 |  Niceties

still actual as ever...

A balloonist got lost over an empty land and saw a programmer below. He shouted, "Where am I?" The programmer replied, "In a balloon."

Interesting how many engineers are so deep in the details that they miss the bigger picture 1 which is always more important (goals before implementation 2).

Footnotes

  1. That relates well with McConnell reference to some of MBTI personality types engineering people possess. See McConnell S., Professional Software Development (2003), MBTI Results for Software Developers, p. 131 of the PDF version. The joke unintentionally reflects the MBTI Sensing behavior of the personality type. ↩

  2. Read about ABC principle in this citation ↩