What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf]

One past discussion:

What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568863 - Sept 2016 (45 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)

What does Knuth mean by

> I particularly like his definitinon of a bad programmer. (My personal record is about 12 years.)

here?

If you liked this, you may like my favorite paper https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf