"Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow" - Dogbert
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:I have to take issue with your point about beauty though. Code can be beautiful - as evidenced by existence of this book - and while I can count the number of times I've actually produced any on the fingers of one hand (this being one of them), there's enormous satisfaction in being able to look at something you wrote and think:
"You know what? I really nailed that".
Paul Clapham wrote:Likewise there's not much scope for creativity in plumbing, you're called in to make sure that the water goes the right way through the building and not the wrong way, and there aren't too many ways to achieve that goal. Except in a small minority of situations where there's something unusual about the building.
Jesper de Jong wrote:
Last week I was talking with someone and I explained this. She was surprised, because according to her technical work and creativity usually don't go together.
code is emotional
Giovanni Montano wrote:@Winston thank you for the book
"Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow" - Dogbert
Articles by Winston can be found here
Jesper de Jong wrote:Paul: Looking at your examples of plumbing and embroidery, I'd say my work is much more like embroidery than plumbing.
Paul Clapham wrote:Likewise there's not much scope for creativity in plumbing, you're called in to make sure that the water goes the right way through the building and not the wrong way, and there aren't too many ways to achieve that goal. Except in a small minority of situations where there's something unusual about the building.
Software is not like that at all: there's not just one way or a limited number of ways to do something, there's an almost infinite number of ways to model a business domain...
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