Ingenuity through laziness

On a non-technical note, I thought I’d meander a bit about my programming philosiphy. In my opinion, there are different kinds of developers. There are those that have fallen into the trade through fate and must program to eat. Generally, those kinds of developers latch on to one environment and/or platform and ride it until it is no longer popular. These developers tend to always have a reference manual handy and probably copy and paste alot of their code. There are other developers who are tinkerers, they experiment with various languages for fun not really accomplishing anything other than the pursuit of knowledge (I started here). These developers are not an expert in anything but have general knowledge about everything. These are gross generalizations but the point i’m making is that there is another class of programmer which isn’t talked about much.