This is a guest post, written by my friend Dan Collens in 2011. There are two references below to “short beards”. Pictures of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson usually show them with a long beard. These programmers understood software from top to bottom and wrote software in a fundamentally different way than most of today’s web & mobile app programmers (whom we derisively refer to as “short beards”). Long beards are often the older and more experienced programmers, but there are plen...
