In the last issue of Dr. Dobbs, there was an article entitled Why Programming is Fun, the article is a spin of from a blog entry by the author at:
http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/archive/2006/08/19/26828.aspx
I can agree with most of the things he mention, then again some of the aspects are of no interest to me – and the same point originally authored by Fred Brooks seem to be more down my alley.
But as something, which is probably not particularly Perl, I think I would like to write up my own list, based on my work as a Perl programmer, some of these are also on the lists mentioned:
- The joy of building things
- The joy of building things fast
- The happiness of seing you test suite pass 100%
- The happiness of seing your work mature over time
- The joy of freely refactoring and having your test suite point to you where you broke something
- The joy of receiving a bug report or patch, that tells you somebody actually use your work (I do not get that often)
- The feeling standing on the shoulders of giants when you discover a cool CPAN module, which does just what you need
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