So here I sit, in my big ol desk chair staring at yet another explanation of "helloworld"... a very small and simple java program. Yes, mike is trying to learn java, and everytime he looks at it, it frustrates him even more! Why are all programming languages so terribly verbose, complicated and needlessly cryptic? WHY? I mean, seriously, we have come such a long way in the fields of computing and computing hardware. This should have been a problem solved oh so long ago. The closest thing I have found to a user friendly program generating program is Visual Basic...and even then, the root of this language relies on C. I could tear my hair out going into all the details of why I hate programming, but what is more intrigueing to me is the reason why I hate it. I think it has it's roots in my father. He gets terribly upset and easily frustrated when dealing with computers and computer programs as it is right now...somthing I enjoy oh so much. His main gripes come up with windows and excel, two programs he has to know to do his job. Every iteration of excel is his worst nightmare, drudging up long time gripes and complaints about computers in general.
Is this just the next step in the family evolution of brinker computer users? Will my children sit and write thousands of lines of code as if they were typing a simple e-mail? Probably, and it will scare me. Scare me into realizing that I will be a cranky old man who, when confronted my another java applet, will scream in frustration at my virtual 3D command console, wondering why I am forced to deal with lines of code to get an idea to come out in tangible digital form. Maybe I can prevent that from happening, just maybe. A challenge to all programmers out there who actually enjoy what they are doing. Write me a program that creates other programs without having to code. I know you can do it.
In the meantime...HelloJava, here I come again...
Posted by Mike at August 24, 2003 11:43 PMI really really love programming. :) Although I don't want to create a program which creates other programs. Visual Basic is currently taking care of that. :)
So why am I here? I had this query on Google: "I hate programming". Just curious if there are people who actually hate programming.
This entry made me love programming even more. Didn't mean to offend or something. :)
Cheers!
Posted by: Diane at December 28, 2003 01:53 AM
i love programming also :)
heres a couple of examples =)
C
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#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}
C++
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#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
{
cout << "hello world" << endl;
return 0;
}
Posted by: silvio at December 28, 2003 09:14 AM
I had to take my frustation out on the browser and yell at it best i could "I hate programming!" Simply to see if there where other people out there ready to throw there computer out the window too. Ive been fighting all day the oh so cryptic data configurations, connections, adapters, and so on in c#. Back to work
Posted by: steve at February 1, 2004 06:44 PM
I'm an accountant turned finance & statistics reporting programmer, using mainly declarative database languages like sql. I like that kind of work. But what i don't like is the OOP & procedural 'real' programming languafes like vb.net, which are to me like a chinese dialect. So i tend to stay clear of that although i fear i'll need to confront that someday.
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