I used to love programming

Post #132,815 by deSitter 12/30/03 2:49:12 PM Reply	I used to love programming It would be impossibly frustrating to have to put up with these idiotic idioms every day. If one could get a job doing something interesting like Smalltalk or FORTH, then I would have a job I loved. If I had to do Java or similar every day, I would hate my job. The more you love programming, the more likely you'll end up hating a programming job. -drl
Post #133,002 by tuberculosis 12/31/03 12:58:45 PM 12/31/03 1:00:46 PM Reply	Me too But I think in retrospect I should have stayed in the music biz. I'm a fair to middlin recording engineer, song writer, producer, guitarist, and gadget/synth programmer. Had I dedicated all my efforts to it (and moved to LA to work on breaking into the recording scene) I suspect I might have penetrated to some level of self sufficiency by now. I have found that the power source to write software and to create music is the same. I can't do both at the same time. Foolishly, I studied engineering thinking that engineers designed things and that engineering was a creative endeavor at some level. Imagine my dismay when I found that so much of it was following handbooks and recipes. I need creative outlets. Now I do software for money. I don't much care for it as the creativity has been "engineered" out of it. At the place I am now I doubt I'll write 50 lines of code this year. Its all process process process and everything is locked down. "I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone." -- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003 Edited by tuberculosis Dec. 31, 2003, 01:00:46 PM EST Expand All History
Post #133,008 by deSitter 12/31/03 1:08:57 PM Reply	Start a business! I'll work for you for dirt cheap and hope. I had no idea you were so into music. I want to write a music editor that can apply performance styles to ranges of bars (sort of like a texture). This is a big problem. All the music software I've seen is rudimentary. -drl
Post #133,033 by jb4 12/31/03 3:32:46 PM Reply	Re: Start a business! Gimme a call, too! I'll help! jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT

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