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I was listening to an interesting interview with Dustin Nguyen, a comics artist yesterday. He had a background in CAD work, and for a long time had a pet projec
by kenshi 17y ago
I was listening to an interesting interview with Dustin Nguyen, a comics artist yesterday. He had a background in CAD work, and for a long time had a pet project of creating locations for scenes in a CAD package. The idea being he and his co-workers would be able to save a load of time when drawing the art, because they could just use rendered backgrounds.
He mentioned this idea to his boss (famed comics artist Jim Lee) who apparently just said: "Why? Drawing is fun,".
And to this idea of automatically generating code from some formal spec, I can't help but think: "Why? Programming is fun,"
Sure no one likes tedious, rote programming. I especially don't like the kind of tedious typing statically typed languages tend to require you to write. But if you aren't finding the art of programming fun... I think you are in the wrong line of work.
For any interested parties, the interview with Nguyen was from episode 91 of the Sidebar podcasts - http://www.sidebarnation.com/ http://www.sidebarnation.com/
- gdp 17y agoProblem solving is fun, and programming is a convenient way to access a large class of problems and express solutions to them. When the problem solving bit is done, the rest is just typing. I'd rather spend more time solving interesting problems and less time typing. Not to mention that I am likely to make mistakes while I'm typing up my solution. I'd rather not have to waste time chasing errors I've made that could have been avoided. Instead, I would rather spend time fixing errors in my solutions to problems, or looking for even better solutions.