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On 2018-02-22, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

> On 2/22/2018 1:29 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2018-02-22, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Unfortunately, "Computer Scientists" these days don't seem to have to
>>> do mundane things like writing code.  And they get snarky if anyone
>>> suggests that there's anything wrong with this--they're working on the
>>> Great Advances, code is for the trade schools, according to them.
>> 
>> That's why I dropped out of CS in 1971, and got a programming job
>> in the Real World [tm].  Getting those payrolls and receivables out
>> took a change in mindset which turned out to be quite worthwhile.
>
> Planning and design are important... but I enjoy hammering out the 
> code!!!  Part of the attraction of computers (for me and I think for 
> many others) is the idea that the computer will *automatically* do work 
> for you after you get the program right.  So I think many programmers 
> originally got "sucked in" by laziness... the idea that the machine will 
> do all the work.

Eventually it does.  It just takes enough work to get there that you have
to ask yourself whether it's worth it.  For one-shot jobs, often not.
(But remember, the definition of a one-shot job is something that a
user wants only once... this week.)

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