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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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Shi Ling

Programming is... Learning to let things go.

That code you spent weeks working on a few years ago? Yea let it go. Delete it. At first you might feel sad and it hurts, but soon you'll learn it feels so gooood.

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Elliot Derhay

Programming is ... where was I before that email came in?

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madhu

Programming is ... good unless u ran into some troublesome bugs!

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Benjamin Köppchen

...frustrating, until you're done, then it's a short moment of awesome. and then, it's legacy and frustrating again.

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Alejandro Bonilla

Programming is ... sexy

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Anton Frattaroli

Programming is a bunch of monkeys at keyboards that sometimes type something that the other monkeys use :)

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UTSAV DEEP

Programming is an art of unintentionally creating bugs (or unexpected random features) and fixing it.

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Kasey Speakman

Programming is... making me wish I was a ditch digger today.

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Kyle R. Conway

Programming is ... a slot machine with worse odds of success then those in a casino, even though you may have full control of the outcome, but you keep on pulling...

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Pedro Maia Costa

Programming is... the ability to keep it simple stupid.