Talkers and Doers

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

A while ago, I wrote a little piece on two types of programmers. The practical programmer and the acadamic programmer. This article describes it better, eventhough it’s much more focused on the shipping end-product.

Some excerpts:
One day I went to a brown bag lunch, and a lead architect proudly proclaimed that he had used every GoF Design Pattern in a project. What he failed to mention was that the software didn’t live up to the customer’s expectations. It didn’t work.
There are two types of people in this industry. Talkers and Doers. ObjectSpace was a company of talkers. Adobe is a company of doers. Adobe took in $430 million in revenue last quarter. ObjectSpace is long bankrupt.