I don’t practice much programming; I’ve come to realize that I’m not a great programmer; I don’t write great code and I generally suck almost as much as everyone else at debugging.  I don’t get the new “trends” in styles, the ISelectiveInterfaceDualMoterizedAdapter’s and the automagic!  Oh yes; the automagic.  It seems the automagic is never documented well.  I recall my programming 231 course.

“Abstractions are very useful; as long as you know the price of what lies beneath.”  This is what the prof said when talking about the STL string class.  Recall that you can’t find the complexity of a piece of code unless you know the complexity of its parts.  People do string.find() and don’t realize that there is a loop in there! or that their string is really 20000 characters long; they aren’t writing the loop, who cares?  We can do string.find()’s all day long!

So on another guys blog (lets try here) I find a rant about doing programming just for practice; solving random problems for the hell of it.  I dunno if I’m “programmer” enough to try it; or if I really am just a sysadmin in disguise…