March 20, 2004 spout

Programming Stinks

As much as I love writing code, I realized long ago that it’s really the act of bending my computer to my will that I really love. Programming’s just the only way to really do that. After a few decades, you’d have thought we’d have come up with something better. Our industry’s pioneers agree that programming is holding us back, but don’t really know what we’ll use to replace it. Ideas?