{"id":410,"date":"2003-04-29T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=410"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"are_programmers_people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/29\/are_programmers_people\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Programmers People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/weblogs\/viewpost.jsp?thread=4414\">Ken Arnold<\/a>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/weblogs\/viewpost.jsp?thread=4414\">\n\nIf we accept that programmers are humans, one primary and interesting consequence is that human factors issues can be properly applied towards the tools they use.&hellip;I am speaking about the more basic tools programmers use every minute they do their work: programming languages and APIs. \n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/weblogs\/viewpost.jsp?thread=4414\">\n\nConsider garbage collection.  One can argue up and down about the overhead, etc., but consider this: Two of the best selling C++ books are Scott Meyer&rsquo;s <cite>Effective C++<\/cite> and <cite>More Effective C++<\/cite>.  The single largest category of the 85 tips&mdash;about one quarter of them&mdash;is dealing with potential memory leaks.&hellip;This is fundamentally a human factors problem: You can tell people how to avoid the whirling knives of the abattoir, or you can close the abattoir door.\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nedbatchelder.com\/blog\/200304.html#e20030428T085443\">Ned Batchelder<\/a>)\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Arnold: If we accept that programmers are humans, one primary and interesting consequence is that human factors issues can be properly applied towards the tools they use.&hellip;I am speaking about the more basic tools programmers use every minute they do their work: programming languages and APIs. Consider garbage collection. One can argue up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}