RE: Hackers and Painters

["Kohlenberg, Toby" <toby.kohlenberg () intel com>]

heh. that's the best description I've ever heard of it. How
else can you explain 18-hour coding sessions where you don't eat
(except for anti-inflamatories) or drink because that would 
require typing slower and you put off going to the bathroom 
because it's distracting and taking time.
And continuing to do this when it is causing more and more damage
to the nerves in your hands and forearms...

And those are only the short binges, not the truly marathon ones
that I know many of you have the luxury of doing. (36 hours straight
is only feasible if you don't need to take children to school or
feed them/care for them.) 

:)
Does that mean that when we encourage someone to learn to program,
we are pushing them to gain a new addiction?

t

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dailydave-bounces () lists immunitysec com 
> [mailto:dailydave-bounces () lists immunitysec com] On Behalf Of Adam
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 12:08 AM
> To: dailydave () lists immunitysec com
> Subject: Re: [Dailydave] Hackers and Painters
>
> Halvar Flake wrote:
>
> > I don't care if code is art. I don't care if code is math. I 
> like code,
> > and I like to code. Can't we just settle for "coders" instead of 
> > "artists", "makers", "scientists" or whatever else ?
>
> I feel a lot of people see it that way. Coding is that 
> unending urge in life
> that you have no control over. Just like a drug that you don't 
> want to stop or
> can't stop.
>
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