begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:18:11AM -0800: [snip] > BTW, I hear this "programming in anger" phrase from time to > time. The phrase strikes me as juvenile. Me, I believe in programing > for fun if I am going to be juvenile. Life is too short to be angry. One > needs far more serious reasons than programming to be angry.
There's a viewpoint. Not how I would have interpreted the phrase... I've used the "...in anger" construct to mean that the described skill was used for non-trivial stuff, where failure would result in swearing (at a minimum) or some actual stress. Term-project sized programs and on up, basically. I don't actually turn red in the face, sputter, or such... although, with C++, I probably do come close. (Stroustroup is a smart guy. C++ is one of the reasons I never buy the argument "But some smart guys think that way." Being smart doesn't make you sensible.) But yes, coding should be fun. If it isn't fun, find a different language, better suited to your personal quirks. > Forth > has always been more fun than damn near any other environment I > ever worked in. For me: Alone, non-trivial Forth programs turned out to be pretty boring. Programming _with_ someone, Forth was an absolute blast. I suspect my memory stack isn't deep enough to handle Forth by myself; I need to either borrow more storage from another's brain, or loan my pitiful stack to another. -- By the time I finish documenting forth code, I could've written it in pascal. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
