I don't know if I ever describe programming as easy, but I know I've told people that coding is "the easy part" of software development. (The hard part is the s

I don't know if I ever describe programming as easy, but I know I've told people that coding is "the easy part" of software development. (The hard part is the software engineering. Any idiot can write code, but it takes a particularly attentive, practiced idiot to implement 100kloc in a maintainable, efficient manner.)