May 2010
1 post
Making Elephants Dance
While the enjoyment derived in programming a beautifully elegant system is obvious to pretty much all programmers, I find that it is often just as rewarding, if not more so, to deal with a hideous, complicated, ad-hoc, hodge-podge of a system. The joy you feel when, after hours or days or weeks of effort, you’re finally able to make that elephant dance — that is something special.
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