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It's with great pleasure and a wide smile that I'm finally able to share my secret with you. Kathy Sierra and I have been working on the next generation of aspiration. Forget agile, forget pragmatic, no, the new way is: The Emo Programmer™ — a practitioner of Emotional Programming™.
This is not merely a label, nay, it's a new way of life for programmers seeking a higher state of satisfaction and fulfillment in their symbioses with code. It's the pursuit of happiness put at the forefront and given turbo. And you too can be a part of it by getting the manifesto:
This is a unique chance to escape such silly constraints as "the best tool for the job" or simply be about "getting things done". As an Emo Programmer™, you're free to use arguments such as:
...because I feel like it
...because it makes me special
...because I get to feel warm and fuzzy inside
Yes, Emo is good and Emo works. And I'm very happy to have had the chance to have been able to work on this innovative, revolutionary, new field with the mother of passion to the music of emo and apply it all to the search of well-being in conditionals, loops, and even encapsulation!
You too can be happy, you too can be Emo™.
The Emo Programmer will be available for pre-sale shortly and so will our Emo manifesto. Stay ever so very tuned.
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