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: Discourse.netSoftware Is Easy to Hate
By Professor University of Miami School of Law
Jeff Atwood writes at Coding Horror about software hatred:
One of the (many) unfortunate side effects of choosing a career in software development is that, over time, you learn to hate software. I mean really hate it. With a passion. Take the angriest user you’ve ever met, multiply that by a thousand, and you still haven’t come close to how we programmers feel about software. Nobody hates software more than software developers.
OK. But they’re not the only ones who hate it…..
Full post as published by Discourse.net on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).
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