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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
That describes most of the best programmers I've met, pshrynk. You can push and prod and cajole and threaten deadlines, and they'll shrug, browse, and play first-person shooters all day. Then they'll code for 48 hours straight.
Or, they'll threaten mutiny when you force them to work on NEW stuff rather than rewrite something that's just fine because to them, it isn't elegant enough.
Also, every great programmer I've known or trained has also been a musician, or a bonsai tree hobbyist or a pointillist or designed their own house...
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Ah, but Taylor ... you said it yourself, that describes the "best" programmers. And, from your experience I would hazard that the best programmers are those that also have a bent towards the traditional creative arts.
So, maybe while all programmers who can create code are artists or poets, there is a subset of programmers who are. While the fact that the subset exists doesn't make me want to lump all programmers into the "creative artists" category, I can see that some people who are also programmers should be there.
Anyone who is seriously driven ... to the point of obsession ... to be the "best" in whatever they do ... they are often more subject to stressors than a lot of the rest of us. Anytime a person is a perfectionist ... well, they haven't yet hatched the "perfect" human being (and please .... don't even bring up any religious figures ... not even Buddha, who we considered to be "enlightened" not "perfect.")