Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers

So you get people like Mary Allen Wilkes, who figured, “Well, I can’t be a lawyer because it’s too sexist in 1959 to be a lawyer, so I’ll just walk into MIT on the day of my graduation and say, do you guys need any coders? You can use code and algorithms to do really cool, subtle things that aren’t being done because everyone’s trying to go after this obvious low-hanging fruit. Thompson: One of the things that really leapt out is the almost aesthetic delight in efficiency and optimization that you find among software developers.

Source: arstechnica.com