I was reading Jeff Atwood?s latest post, Programming: Love it or Leave it when I came across this part, emphasis mine. Joel implied that good programmers love programming so much they?d do it for no pay at all. I won?t go quite that far , but I will note that the best programmers I?ve known have all had a lifelong passion for what they do. There's no way a minor economic blip would ever convince them they should do anything else. No way. No how. Unlike Jeff, I will go that far. I love to code, and I do it for free all the time. I don?t think Joel meant to imply that programmers would continue to write code for their current employers for free in lieu of any pay. What I think he meant was that programmers who love to code will code for fun...(read more) ...
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