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What do you say to people when they say that programming is not demanding?
- elouise 16y agoyou do it
- itcmcgrath 16y agoIsn't that what caused all those business critical excel spreadsheets ;)
- beoba 16y ago'Yeah, you're probably right.'
- webuiarchitect 16y agoOf course, you ignore them!
- itcmcgrath 16y agoUnless it's your wife... Then you say 'Yes, dear'
- Charuru 16y agoAll the problems in the first answer are people problems. If you work in a software firm that doesn't treat its employees like code monkeys, or better yet, work for yourself, then programming isn't demanding. It's fun, relaxing, and awesome. Sales is demanding. :S
- bugsy 16y agoMany times when I hear the "programming is very easy" claim it comes from someone who is out of work: "Oh, he say programming hard? Not so! Programming very easy! I do this job for you cheap!"
- techiferous 16y agoThe same thing as when people say that teaching is not demanding.
- Joakal 16y agoMaking a superfluous statement is a red flag. In most cases I'd nod and move on.
- gaius 16y agoTry explaining being a DBA or a sysadmin - if we're doing our jobs right, no-one will even know we're there.
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- sage_joch 16y agoIf you get full control of the code base from the ground up, you can often make life easier for yourself (it takes work and continual refactoring, though). What's difficult is when you have to work through other peoples' messes.
- rwmj 16y agoThe top-rated answer (by the submitter I think?) is excellent: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/37316/what-do-you-say-to-people-when-they-say-that-programming-is-not-demanding/37334#37334 http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/37316/what-do...
- itcmcgrath 16y agoThanks. Might have something to do with the project I'm currently working on...
- raghava 16y agoI had seen a post by Bruce Eckel conveying the same thought; and it certainly puts it correctly. Writing Software is Like ... Writing http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=255898 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=255898 And in most of the cases, IMO, not to forget those awesome co-workers who (have a forget-stuff-in-60-mins syndrome and) would need a lot of help on grammar or vocab, every single day. Blessed life, I'd say!
- radioactive21 16y ago"It depends" or "that's not entirely true" It various, I know people who do little html and consider it programming. And obviously there are those in charge of huge software developments.
- mkramlich 16y agoI fire up Terminal, then stand up, offer my chair to them, say I'll be back later.
- Matt_Rose 16y agoI say: "Shhh! Don't tell anyone, then they'll all want to do it!"
- twymer 16y agoI'd like to know what type of jobs the responders work. Would be interesting to see a breakdown of answers to "how demanding is programming" by users of different languages/frameworks or by what type of company they work at (startup, big corporation, etc).
- scotty79 16y agoDon't you hate when your theoretical phisicist, mathematician, molecular biologist and rocket engineer friends do that.