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On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:01:06 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> On 06/04/2012 08:54 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>>
>> I think more people are attracted to the latter because "debugging
>> isn't fun", "isn't fun" ->  "work" therefore debugging is work. (And
>> thus the more debugging they do the more sense of accomplishment for
>> their work they feel.)
> 
> I agree. When you've spend hours/days/weeks fighting the language to get
> something that [sort of] does [most of] what you want, you get a sense
> of accomplishment. It was hard, so clearly you've achieved something
> significant. If you fix a couple of compiler errors and it works, it
> must not have been very difficult.

Ah, that must be it!

- Brian