Programming: You're doing it wrong

If you're a programmer (as I am), please do yourself a favor and read this post by Marco Tabini in the 20th anniversary of his IT career:
http://www.phparch.com/2010/03/10/programming-youre-doing-it-wrong/

Some highlights of his post:

"Software development is the land of egos and opinions—and it seems that, no matter how bad we try, we're always doing things the wrong way."

"One of the things that I have learned in twenty years of attempting to program is that we’re all doing it wrong. You. Me. Everybody."

"If you’re agonizing over whether you’re writing good code, let me spare you the anguish: you’re doing it wrong—except if your code works, in which case you most definitely are doing it right."


Other posts by Tabini (worth to read):
- Stop Telling People to Optimize, and Start Teaching them to program
- 5 meta skills for the PHP programmer