Programming is so exciting today! One post here talks about the thrill of coercing a limited machine into doing something useful - that's one kind of excitement and it is awesome. On the other side of that, today I can rent a super computer and write something that stores and computes terabytes of data, or I can create software that lets 15000 people connect and interact thanks to ubiquitous connectivity, or I can make something that computes a FFT on a slice of music and does a spectral comparison of 100000 other songs (Shazam) in real time because that kind of power is available, and (maybe it's just me) but functional programming seems more in vogue and declarative programming's hey-day is just around the corner ("I predict!").

We are just scratching the surface of what is possible. Programming is scintillating.