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Michiel Hendriks
Michiel Hendriks

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Programming is ...

In the same style as the Love is ... comic, write your best Programming is ... line.

To start this off, an adaptation of a Louis Srygley quote:

[Without requirements or design, ]
Programming is ... the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.


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Ben Halpern

Programming is ... an exercise in managed uncertainty.

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Sethu Senthil

Programming is ... the art of sending stack overflow a lot traffic.

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Avalander

Programming is... pain, anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Programming is pain

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Ben Halpern

Pain + reward ... hopefully :)

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Avalander

Most of the time, at least :)

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Michiel Hendriks

Oh no 😱 That is not right. It should not ever be like that.

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Avalander

Soo... what are you selling? :P

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Tobias SN

import english

print(“Programming is ... “ + english.words[“programming”].definitions[0])

Output:

Programming is ... a perpetual process where you start to overthink, and use it to overcomplicate simple concepts.

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Bhushan Authankar

Programming is ... the mud on your hand that won't wash off.

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Mark Wragg

Programming is ... the path to the dark side. Programming leads to bugs, bugs lead to debugging, debugging leads to suffering.

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Brandon Carson

Programming is ... the closest you'll ever get to learning magic.

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Gonçalo Marques

Programming is... a compelling yet abusive relationship.

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Pratik Ambani • Edited

Programming is... ..but it was working on my local. 😔😔😫

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