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Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion
- bediger4000 10y agoThere's a whole lot to what this article is saying. It's definitely not worth mystifying programming. At the same time, I doubt sincerely that you want to believe that programming is a trade, like drywalling, or bricklaying. The existence of undecidable problems (general solution to Diophantine equations, anyone?) means that ingenuity will always play a part in programming. It's a hard line to walk: one one side you make "wizards" and "gurus" out of programmers, on the other, you make downtrodden code monkeys, in over their heads because they don't understand Chomsky's language hierarchy, or something.