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Programming is hard
- sutro 18y agoProgramming is to great software what writing is to great literature. You might reach some basic level of literacy -- say, the ability to write a blog post -- and conclude that writing is easy. You might then translate your blog post from English into French and take the results as further evidence of your literary mastery. Programmers often celebrate their words, their phrases, their languages, but these things don't really matter. What matters is the end result. Producing great literature or great software is not easy. It is the work of a lifetime.
- michael_dorfman 18y agoI'm put in mind of Voltaire's retort to the notion that that "Life is hard"--- "Compared to what?"
- ewiethoff 18y ago> "Compared to what?" Shopping! Creating a useful software product is harder than buying one off the shelf. Creating great literature is harder than buying something at Barnes & Noble.