I've been thinking a lot about why I like to code, and how that relates to the fact that I will program for money. The programming for money part isn't nearly as satisfying to me for some reason as some of the stuff I've been doing for free.
I did the groundwork for a themes engine which went into Cuis 3.0. That was ultra-fulfilling, because I liked the feel of Cuis a lot better than that of mainline Squeak (the keyboard navigation is a lot better, there's a lot less "stuff" everywhere in the UI layer, etc) but I absolutely had to do *something* about the look, as it seemed trapped in the 80's everywhere except for the lovely antialiased fonts. So it was a bit like the nice feeling you get after redoing a deck and inviting some people to hang out on it. It got me thinking about an interview I saw on the tubes that Alan did on collective cognition, where he mentioned a list of human motivators that anthropologists had identified. Does anyone know where a list like that might be found? Maybe in a book or a research paper with a title like _________? I decided it would be a fun experiment to ask the people on this list if they might share some of their own motives for making and studying software. What makes your inner programmer tick? _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
