Yoni Valdez

In Genesis, God creates things in a certain order. Why plants before animals? I dunno. It just seemed right to Him. (Don’t worry, it’s just a metaphor.)

Programmers are the same way. In any programming language, there will be many ways to solve a problem. The right way to do it is a personal decision, made by the programmer, just like in Genesis.

Programmers are the Gods of their tiny worlds. They create something out of nothing. In their command-line universe, they say when it’s sunny and when it rains. And the tiny universe complies.

So if you’re working with a programmer, you have to treat him or her like a God. You have to pray. You cannot issue edicts. You have to come on bended knee. “Here’s the problem I have. I need a solution. Please help.”

Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God.