[Edu-sig] Programming for Fun Quote

[Jason Cunliffe]

A nice quote by Chris Langreiter [Vanilla author]

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Programming is about languages much much more than about 'mathematics' -
quite in sharp contrast to what they try to tell you in school. Languages
provide you with a 'certain' level of abstraction, mathematics with a
theoretically infinite one. Infinite abstractions are, however, pretty
useless. Programming is as much fun as writing a poem or a short story or
composing a song. It's putting sentences, statements, words together to form
a meaningful whole. A well-written program (like much of a Smalltalk image)
is like a symphony.

- Jason


quote source =
http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg016342.html
Vanilla http://www.langreiter.com/cgi-bin/vanilla.r