Monday, April 11, 2005

Burningbird ? I love to code

Burningbird ? I love to code

Coders will understand when I mention the �Aha!� moment; when you hear from the other side of a cubical wall a cry of triumph�usually followed by the person bouncing out of their chair and in a hyperkinetic frenzy, walking about, dancing about�rapid swoosh of slinky being balanced from hand to hand, and shit-eating grin wide across the face. There were no cubical walls around me, and I scared my cat I think, but today I had one of those moments. And I re-discovered that I love to code.


There are very few people who think this way. I personally have had a total of two friends during college life who were as interested in coding as I was. Those who lived for the 'Aha' moment. The fun that it is to code. Out of about fifty or so computer scientist that I've known. All concerned usually got in it because it was a good career (during the dot-com days). I got into computer science and programming because it was my hobby and thats what I wanted to do in life.

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