From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T00:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Learn to Program, by Chris Pine

kj WOOLLEY wrote:
> On 29/03/06, Jan_K <non@none.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> I feel like beating the shit out of some punching bag somewhere. Is
>> this a normal reaction when one is trying to learn to program for the
>> first time?
> 
> I've been programming for over 20 years and I *still* feel like that
> sometimes.  While I can't say what way is definitively best to deal
> with it, I tend to take a five or ten minute walk when I get to
> feeling like that.  Often, by time that that's done, I've got a fresh
> idea for how to approach the problem, or I've thought of something I
> may be missing.

Well, might I say that he's picked a good language to try out.  With 
other languages, it would be much, much worse.  :)

A major reason I moved to Ruby is because it vastly reduces (or 
sometimes eliminates) frustration while programming.  Something [I] 
frequently encountered with other languages (C, C++ (esp. Windows 
stuff), Java, Perl, Tcl).

Pistos

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.