DevHacker Newsabout 4 hours ago
Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?
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Frederick Brooks' 50-year-old "tar pit" metaphor explains why programming is both captivating and agonizing. A program costs nine times more as a product and system component than as a standalone debugged program. The craft demands perfection, grants limited authority, and entangles countless simultaneous problems.
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