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Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Thu Dec 7 02:54:29 EST 2017 
Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at 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.


Marko
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