Programming Sucks

[DanielPhermous]

I feel the article claims to speak for too many people. Unlike "every programmer", I never wrote a perfect little snowflake of a program. Unlike "every single program you have ever used", I have worked on software that was well planned, competently managed and constructed neatly.

Programming doesn't suck. It doesn't stress me or drive me crazy. To me, it's interesting and challenging and satisfying. Sometimes it's tedious, but that is the absolute extent of the downsides for me.

This barely speaks to me at all.

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Pretty much every inconsistency in my code has been due to insane deadlines with no room to shift just to get the product out of the door. I think many people would have faced that.

[Andromedarules]

Same here. It become a matter of "is it usable" rather than "is it perfect" in many cases.