Friday, May 09, 2008 @ Friday, May 09, 2008
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." Why do you think the person said this?
I think the person must really feel frustrated at that moment to say such an interesting quotation. I bet he must have slugged out his energy in trying to elucidate his programming code to run as smoothly as possible. And from here, this quotation really hit a resonance with me.
I have an image of that person starring as hard as possible into his screen. His mind had a completed picture on how he is going to create it. But the code that he had written does not seem to make the computer understand. Else the other alternative will be that he had written a perfect programming code but the software in the computer does not support that kind of coding. And that can be pretty depressing for the programmer.
But in my opinion being a playwright in the literature world, he or she needs to familiarize with their own characters in order to produce the best play for them to act out their best scene. And this does applies to the programming world. For a programming code to run smoothly in a computer, the programmer must familiarize with their codes and their attributes in order to make the programming to run as smoothly as possible.
--xoxo,
Imaginarist
Imaginarist
