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 编程可以毁掉你的生命(Programming Can Ruin Your Life)

很多文章和评论不断地告诉你成为一名程序员有多好：敏捷的头脑、抽象能力、富裕的工作……然而是这么回事吗？问题引出了作者在文中讲述的编程带来的负面影响。

身体：大部分时间坐在电脑前，可能椅子也很不舒服；以富含脂肪、高盐高糖的快餐为食；咖啡……
思想：编程技术迅速发展，而每个人的想法和爱好各不相同，所以你很难向别人解释你做的是什么。因为你解释的越详细，别人的反驳越会影响你的思想。这，也是很大的思想伤害。而且编程的严谨和其他特性让你刻板、不近人情、对人生悲观。
文中还“搜集”了其他证据……

英文原文：

There are many essays and articles extolling the virtues of becoming a great programmer. You’ll have a sharp mind, great abstract reasoning skills, and a chance to become wealthy by working mere hours a day. This is what you’ve heard, right?

Sadly, no one ever tells you about the ways in which it will adversely affect your life. The physical effects are obvious. You’ll spend most of your time sitting, probably in an uncomfortable chair that doesn’t promote good posture. You’ll fuel yourself with food that is readily available, meaning it’s more than likely processed and full of sugar and you’ll likely choose either coffee or soda to stave off the drowsiness. A coworker once remarked, “If it doesn’t come out of a vending machine, programmers don’t eat it.”

But I’m not particularly interested in the health risks, as I said, they’re obvious. So what am I talking about? Programming changes more than your body. Programming changes the way you think. You might hear a programmer say, “I like python because it matches the way I think.” Or is it really that they’ve learned to think in python? Regardless of the language employed, you think differently when you program. No decent programmer will deny that. This is why it’s often so hard to explain to someone “how you do that” because, as clear as your explanation may be, you simply think differently. It is this change in thinking that can ruin your life.

The application of programming specific processes and habits to the everyday is where peril lies. The same traits that make you a great programmer can make you an awkward, misunderstood and miserable human being.

Programming presents you with a problem and allows you to eventually solve it provided you don’t quit. A solution is out there somewhere. Make enough attempts and chances are you’ll eventually prevail. Aren’t computers great? They afford a large degree of freedom in problem solving. If nothing else, you are able to make as may attempts as you please and it will happily execute each one. This instills in you a sense that failure is not final. Any obstacle can be hurdled. This is not true in the real world. While you may find second chances now and again, the wheels that turn in the big blue room are largely unforgiving. Time marches on in one direction.