http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-16681 Mark Hughes Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:01:57 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/#comment-16681 Totally agreed. I write new data structures + algorithms maybe twice a month, and those are rarely unique innovations. The rest of the time is putting one chunk of code after another, debugging, or beating up the logging or build system. Totally agreed. I write new data structures + algorithms maybe twice a month, and those are rarely unique innovations. The rest of the time is putting one chunk of code after another, debugging, or beating up the logging or build system.

]]> http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-16677 cabraham Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:28:23 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/#comment-16677 This is a great post. Thanks. This is a great post. Thanks.

]]> http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-16676 slinkp Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:05:53 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/#comment-16676 Yes indeed. I've been developing full time for 8 years and algorithms haven't entered into my work at all, ever. The vast majority of my time is spent doing exciting stuff like fixing broken builds. Yes indeed. I’ve been developing full time for 8 years and algorithms haven’t entered into my work at all, ever. The vast majority of my time is spent doing exciting stuff like fixing broken builds.

]]> http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-16672 amk Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:08:57 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/#comment-16672 The best description ever is from Stan Kelly-Bootle: "Programming: the boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities." The best description ever is from Stan Kelly-Bootle: “Programming: the boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities.”

]]> http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-16669 Dave Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:43:37 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/11/the-mundane-nature-of-programming/#comment-16669 Something else you gradually come to realise the longer you spend working as a programmer is that most of the time, the less lines of code you end up writing for a given problem, the better the program will be! Something else you gradually come to realise the longer you spend working as a programmer is that most of the time, the less lines of code you end up writing for a given problem, the better the program will be!

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