From The Joel on Software Translation Project

Original article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html

"A programmer coding at full throttle is keeping zillions of things in their head at once: everything from names of variables, data structures, important APIs, the names of utility functions that they wrote and call a lot, even the name of the subdirectory where they store their source code. If you send that programmer to Crete for a three week vacation, they will forget it all."

Translations

• Chinese (Traditional): The Joel on Software Translation Project:人的工作切換有害無益
• Greek (Ελληνικά): Οι εναλλαγές διεργασιών θεωρούνται επιβλαβείς για τους ανθρώπους