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IT: Coding is Creating, Or, On the 7th Day He Created TRON
Thu, 27 Apr 2006

<Ramble> As an infotech grunt, I like to think that what I do is - at its dank primeval murky core - an act of creation. As with any job, a certain amount of work is repetition but it is the gusto and spirit of the work that defines it. Software development is an act of creative violence, of man against the problem, machine and mind and Shanghai noodles banging rocks together until something useful falls out. Software engineering is a symphony.

Years ago I was discussing with my father what coding is. He's an intelligent strong ingenious hard working man (all the things I am not ;) who self-taught a certain amount of engineering for his work as a machine designer. I told him that development at its best follows the same forms - the act of peeling away the layers until a very refined idea can be drafted and designed and aggregated into something useful, and I gave him the age-old developer idea that as with carpentry a good developer can use tools, and make tools, and make tools that make tools - like a hammer. I was careful to also note that this is development at its best, and that most of the time it's more like throwing 10 people at a problem until they've mashed screws into walls using their foreheads.

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