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Programming isn't hard, programming is fun! Ok, it is hardish sometimes, but hard in a fun way not hard in the non-fun way this article seems to imply. And I r
by almost 17y ago
Programming isn't hard, programming is fun! Ok, it is hardish sometimes, but hard in a fun way not hard in the non-fun way this article seems to imply.
And I really don't think your first language is all that important, programming is still fun usually, whatever the language. It's only later that we learn the fine art of language snobbery ;)
- pvg 17y agoHard and fun are not mutually exclusive.
- almost 17y agoAbsolutely, but there is fun-hard and there is hard-work-discouraging-hard and this article seemed to me to be talking more about the latter. In fact I'd say that non-hard programming usually gets not-so-fun (although it still has it's charms)
- pvg 17y agoI didn't get as far as you in figuring out what it was talking about. Mostly it made me think of Wolfgang Pauli's famous quip - 'It is not even wrong'.
- kscaldef 17y agoNo, really, sometimes it's "hard-work-discouraging-hard". I don't know anyone who thinks it's fun to pour through strace or tcpdump output trying to figure out obscure bugs at the OS or network layers. I've known a couple people who liked looking at generated assembly to debug compiler issues, but they are a rare breed. Race conditions or 1 in a million bugs really suck. Trying to debug any of these things while your company hemorrhages money or the phones are ringing off the hook with pissed-off customers; any "fun" you're having is just the adrenalin trying to keep you from being eaten by a tiger. Working on hard problems, of your choosing, on your own schedule, can be fun and rewarding. But the reality is, you're not always going to get that.