Darren New wrote:
> David H. Burns wrote:
>> "I'm not smarter than a fifth grader." ;)
> 
> http://www.gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html?dupe
> 
OK. I admit it programming is hard -- a lot harder than I imagined. It's 
much
harder than it used to be, but why? Well there's multitasking, increase 
in hardware complexity,
the internet (one has to deal with the possibility that umpteen 
advertisers are
going to send unwanted pop-ups to you machine), Microsoft updates every 15
or 20 minutes, viruses (exploiting deliberate loopholes in the Windows 
operating system),
to name a few reasons. Does this make difficult programming inevitable. 
I suppose it does;
at least it is so and little can be done about it. But I'm not 
altogether convinced that this should
make it so difficult for me programming on my own computer largely for 
my own use and not
really caring whether I'm connected to the internet all the time.

It doesn't explain why I have had so much difficulty finding 
understandable paradigms and
prototypes for WINAPI applications -- though that might be due to the 
fact that I don't have
ready access to a large library (or store) where I can thumb through the 
programming books.

All this is very educational. :)

David

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