I consider "programming" to be a religious journey: * "You're on your own path" you get errors that the person next to you doesn't. * "To learn is to invent;

I consider "programming" to be a religious journey: * "You're on your own path" you get errors that the person next to you doesn't. * "To learn is to invent; you must come to realizations by yourself" different solutions in stackexchange in 2012, '13, and '14 don't work for you. * I don't have a cliche-quip for this, but if religion is how you find your complex relationship with the world, programming is how you find your complex relationship with computation. I emphasize "how" because its a process and a practice. * It's mostly bullshit. Because we don't have physics-for-everything, we have religion. Because we don't have math-for-everything[0], we have programming. I'm speaking loosely and rhetorically. * Related to the above, religion is a bunch of workarounds, like programming. This ecumenical counsel said such, but that ecumenical counsel revised it. [0] In this instance, I'll define "programming" to be "mostly failed attempts at precise description." Math-for-everything would be "very precise descriptions."