Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

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Also resonates with backward design.

This is an interesting licensing model that might just scale.

Of course, "Ciro Santilli" with quotes, since all of those are either taken directly from others, or had been previously formulated by others.

The most important program ever written!!!

Poet warriors monkeys? Or Code peasants (码农) according to the Chinese.

Ciro Santilli claims to be one of them.

Much like a pianist plays his piano, a software engineer plays his computer.

Programming is hard. To Ciro Santilli, it's almost masochistic.

What makes Ciro especially mad when programming is not the hard things.

It is the things that should be easy, but aren't, and which take up a lot of your programming time.

Especially when you are already a few levels of "simple problems" down from your original goal, and another one of them shows up.

This is basically the cause of Hofstadter's law.

But of course, it is because it is hard that it feels amazing when you achieve your goal.

Putting a complex and useful program together is like composing a symphony, or reaching the summit of a hard rock climbing proble.

Programming can be an art form. There can be great beauty in code and what it does. It is a shame that this is hard to see from within the walls of most companies, where you are stuck doing a small specific task as fast as possible.

Please, use AsciiDoc and one page to rule them all.