OT: Programming joys

[Brad]

You know it is funny. I have now been programming for close to a year now.
Pretty much mostly self-taught (as most can see from numerous posts I have
made). But I find it funny that early on when a routine that I wrote
actually worked I was overjoyed. Now it seems like when they work it's like
"Okay, on to the next project".

Brad

 

[Aaron Smith]

Wait till it's been 8 years like it has for me. You start to look for
other forms of computer entertainment. lol

 

[Hal Rosser]

Just don't make the mistake of going into management - that's when the fun
stops.

 

[Mario]

Started 25 years ago. We coded our assembler mnemonics manually on a piece
of paper calculating the 1s and 0s manually, the jumps and the offsets. We
had no money and no equipement. We payed a local company a few dollars to
burn the PROMs. When we put the PROM chip on the controller board we
designed and the dawned thing started, god, was I overjoyed! When we bought
our first 10 MB HD, we paid 1000 $ or so for that thing, and it took one
minute to compile an assembler program instead of an hour from the terrible
cassette player, I was overjoyed! When the first BASIC interpreter was
released and it worked, I was overjoyed!

I had projects that ran more than a year so, Brad, if you can keep them
short and coming, that's the way to go, you will keep on being overjoyed
from time to time. I guess there are many things in this kind of life that
will get you overjoyed. I am wondering what it will be for you in 25 years,
if you answer a thread such as this one. The release of Long Horn, you'll
be overjoyed

Cheers!

 

[Ricky W. Hunt]

Just don't make the mistake of going into management - that's when the fun
stops.

Oh, man. No kidding. Peter Principle in effect. I LOVED programming and was
a GENIUS (at the time) at it. So they promoted me to my level of
incompetence and to my COMPLETE LACK OF ENJOYMENT.

 

[Mario]

Started 25 years ago. We coded our assembler mnemonics manually on a piece
of paper calculating the 1s and 0s manually, the jumps and the offsets. We
had no money and no equipement. We payed a local company a few dollars to
burn the PROMs. When we put the PROM chip on the controller board we
designed and the dawned thing started, god, was I overjoyed! When we bought
our first 10 MB HD, we paid 1000 $ or so for that thing, and it took one
minute to compile an assembler program instead of an hour from the terrible
cassette player, I was overjoyed! When the first BASIC interpreter was
released and it worked, I was overjoyed!

I had projects that ran more than a year so, Brad, if you can keep them
short and coming, that's the way to go, you will keep on being overjoyed
from time to time. I guess there are many things in this kind of life that
will get you overjoyed. I am wondering what it will be for you in 25 years,
if you answer a thread such as this one. The release of Long Horn, you'll
be overjoyed

Cheers!