On 13/9/2013 15:37, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: > I disagree with you. It's not hard, and I apologise if its ever sounded that > way, but it is the fun part for me. I love spending hours(days even) > debugging. > > Well, thanks all for depressing me. Time to give up programming and find > something else to do with my life.
I expect that this thread has all been a troll, but on the off chance that I'm wrong... I spent 40+ years programming for various companies, and the only GUI programs I wrote were for my personal use. Many times I worked on processors that weren't even in existence yet, and wrote my own tools to deal with them. Other times, there were tools I didn't like, and I wrote my own to replace them. One example of that is the keypunch. Another is paper tape punch. I was really glad to stop dealing with either of those. Still other times, tools were great, and I used them with pleasure. If the tool was flexible, I extended it. And if it was limited, I replaced it, or found a replacement. Many times I've chosen a particular approach to solving a problem mainly because it was something I hadn't done before. On one project, I wrote code whose job was to generate about 40,000 lines of C++ code that I didn't feel like typing in, and maintaining afterward. The data that described what those lines should look like was under the control of another (very large) company, and they could change it any time they liked. Most changes "just worked." If you seriously can't find anything interesting to do in software, and tools to do it with, then maybe you should take up fishing. With a bamboo pole and a piece of string. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
