While I agree that, in practice, programming is most popular with people who like puzzles, I think this is actually the result of bad tools. We will all run int

While I agree that, in practice, programming is most popular with people who like puzzles, I think this is actually the result of bad tools. We will all run into actual real-world puzzles from time to time ("how can we fit this large operation into this small time envelope"), but generally the problems I have to solve are not puzzles at all. It's clear what I need to do and most of the puzzling is how to get my tools to do it. With more mature tools, I only feel like I am solving puzzles when I am trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.