let me add a little something programming is about languages and tools, whatever is your anger or need, some are more approachable than others my dark beast f

let me add a little something programming is about languages and tools, whatever is your anger or need, some are more approachable than others my dark beast for 10 years have been C and by extension C++, got this kind of stupid idea that to be a "real" developer you have to know how to program in C and true for 10 years I tried to learn C/C++, just learning it for fun or curiosity, and for 10 years it went nowhere, could not wrap my head around it I was just giving up after a couple of weekends, losing interest, and that was to blame on the fact I was just trying to learn it for the sake of knowing it, I didn't really needed it and then on a somewhat big open source C++ project I found a little bug (really a shit of bug that can be fixed in 2sec), I could compile the project but not really write C/C++, but still could fix that bug that's what I would call "anger", knowing that this stupid little bug can be fixed in no-time by someone like me (being a total noob) but from this "anger" came a very unexpected thing on my day to day work, wether it's ActionScript, Java, PHP, Python, etc. I can code it in my sleep, sure there are still some bugs and complexities, but still nothing that I can consider impossible because trying to add features to that big C++ code base, was something very hard to do for me and to some extend "impossible" or "how the hell I gonna do that", it ended up being extremely rewarding and a kind of an obsession so my little contribution would be to add: it's not only about the anger and the need, it is also about how hard it is for you to do it yep, hard is fun the harder the better ;)