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Programming is not all about passion
- astrec 18y agoThe author fails to adequately define passion, and thus leads us on a merry little semantic romp. Passion (n): a thing arousing enthusiasm. "Passion [enthusiasm] is the antithesis of good programming." Enthusiasm is bad programming? Really? I concede enthusiasm isn't strictly required for good programming, but a programmer lacking enthusiasm either a) won't be in the job for too long OR b) is a computer. Programming isn't all about passion, but it isn't all about that other ill-defined term - professionalism - either. Somewhere the the twain shall meet.