On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > >> Rick Johnson wrote: >>> DOLT: "Programming is easy! Once you learn the langauge, >>> it's just a matter of fill-in-the-blanks." >> >> To be fair to this person, for someone who has a natural aptitude for >> programming, it can be difficult to appreciate how hard it is for >> people who don't. >> >> When I first started programming, in my early teens, the basic ideas >> all seemed very straightforward, and I had no trouble seeing how to >> apply them. I unconsciously assumed it would be the same for anyone >> else with a reasonable level of intelligence. >> >> It was a while before it became clear to me that this is not the case >> at all. > > A junior programmer sees the unlimited possibilities of programming. No > montain is too high to climb. > > A seasoned programmer is elated if they can get anything to work at all. >
And an expert programmer sees that those mountains are so full of bugs they're better described as ant-hills... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
