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2006-02-20

Why is programming fun?

Demian Turner cites Fred Brooks' book The Mythical Man-Month - Why is programming fun?:

"Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures."