Why Program

Why do we program?

I program in order to:

• learn something new
• build something new
• get deeper insight into phenomena
• simply because it's fun to do!
• in order to MakeMoney
• to solve an imediate problem (solving matrices, etc)
• to create a new tool, to have new means for comminication with machines
• to avoid something else I have to be doing
• to build a tool to help me with a problem I have been stymied by
• to debug the tool I built last time I had the above problem (with women ;-)
• for the aesthetic ecstasy
• because programs are the only prayers that actually work.
• as a CognitiveExperiment
• to ImpressWomen

that's it for now...

How well is it working on the women?

Well, not too well! Today, I tested this in our SchoolCafeteria, using the infamous pickup line, "Hey, you have a lovely smile. Wanna come see my new SuperCollider routine?" From the reaction, I have a feeling it could work out better leaving only the first sentence there.