Most popular programming posts of 2011

These have been my most popular programming-related posts this year.

1. Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?
2. Plumber programmers
3. The myth of the Lisp genius
4. How to delete pages from a PDF
5. Programmers without computers

My favorite on the list is #5.

Post #4 was written in 2009, but it got a lot of traffic this year.

Thanks to everyone who shared these posts on Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, etc.