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commandlinefan
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Why programming is difficult (2014)
It's kind of the worst of both worlds: it looks like it should be easy, but it's confoundingly difficult in ways that are impossible to see unless you're actually trying to practice it.
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Given any non-deterministic problem, 98% programmers will treat it as a deterministic nail and hit it with their favorite C until one or both is dead.
wool_gather
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Is this not true of most difficult things?
commandlinefan
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When I look at the high regard most people hold, say, lawyers and doctors in, who also do hard things (that are accepted as hard), I’d have to say no.
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