In preparing for this blog I looked the the infinite monkey theorem on wikepedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem). It’s the theorem that goes "a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will type one of Shakespeare's great works. Apparently this was subject to a real experiment. The result was they discovered the monkey's continually typed the letter "S", defecated on the typewriters and did not produce any text of which the bard would have approved.
The relevance of the infinite monkey theorem to blogging is of course that if you keep on writing long enough at some point you might come up with something that is worth reading. This is my hope. Of course like the monkeys (and some other writers I know) I could end up getting very repetitive and using the keyboard for purposes for which it was not designed.
The term "Code Monkeys" is pretty objectionable. Writing code is difficult and exacting. If Shakespeare had to conform his works to the requirements of a compiler I suspect he would have had difficulties. Writing code no longer seems to be about sticking to the one language and submitting it to one big box that follows the instrutions. Now an application may spread over several layers using different languages and running on different boxes. This actually could be progress if it done properly. It should allow more agile, more integrated systems with more flexibility. Sometimes it is hard to convinced.
The relevance of the infinite monkey theorem to blogging is of course that if you keep on writing long enough at some point you might come up with something that is worth reading. This is my hope. Of course like the monkeys (and some other writers I know) I could end up getting very repetitive and using the keyboard for purposes for which it was not designed.
The term "Code Monkeys" is pretty objectionable. Writing code is difficult and exacting. If Shakespeare had to conform his works to the requirements of a compiler I suspect he would have had difficulties. Writing code no longer seems to be about sticking to the one language and submitting it to one big box that follows the instrutions. Now an application may spread over several layers using different languages and running on different boxes. This actually could be progress if it done properly. It should allow more agile, more integrated systems with more flexibility. Sometimes it is hard to convinced.
(The image of the monkey above is borrowed from a Zapthink presentation by Jason Bloomberg)
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