Core tasks
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
How many of these can you do? Here’s how I would tabulate my results:
| Proficiently | 10 |
| Acceptably | 6 |
| Badly | 2 |
| Not at all | 2 |
| Unknown | 1 |
Thanks to Jeff Scripter for the quotation.
October 12th, 2010 at 11:21 am
85 to 89 depending on what counts as “programming a computer.”