Reading this post made me thing about the term 'Ninja', and when the OP was disc...

		pedalpete on April 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to be a great software developer Reading this post made me thing about the term 'Ninja', and when the OP was discussing workhorses, I thought "why do we use the term Ninja? it isn't like Ninjas are out winning wars anymore." What was a Ninja? An expert martial artists, and incredibly skilled in his craft, which is no longer needed?

A ninja in modern war, would be like a punch-card coder working on a windows app..