in reply to your attitude towards the code you write

I couldn't agree more. If coding was an assembly line process--just follow the instructions, plug this bit in here, twiddle that bit there--it would have bored me to tears, years ago.

It's the 'problems' (coding problems, as opposed to all the ancillary stuff, like management:), that make it interesting.

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Re: Re: your attitude towards the code you write
by geekgrrl (Pilgrim) on May 07, 2004 at 22:39 UTC
    this reminds of that quote from the Economist:
    As for the Indian threat, “offshoring” is certainly having an effect on some white-collar jobs that have hitherto been safe from foreign competition.... And the bulk of these exports will not be the high-flying jobs of IT consultants, but the mind-numbing functions of code-writing.
    Fortunately for us coders, coding (at least the stuff we're doing) is NOT mind-numbing.
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