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Does my mind process oddly?

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:24 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Is this something a lot of developers feel or is it just me?

When I've written some code that completes, for example a module in an application, I feel almost as though the code is a physical entity that I could pick up and hold. It's hard to explain :lol: and it sounds kinda crazy. It's like it really has become on object, but not in the OOP sense. It's no loner an artistic creation of syntax and logic but something quite real. If I write something scrappy in a rush I won't feel that however... I think it's just something I feel whilst I'm admiring my work :P

//and why do I keep asking odd questions recently? :? *runs off to find a psychiatrist*

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:56 pm
by Ree
Yeah, first coffee buds, now this... 8O

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:57 pm
by LiveFree
Thats erm ... when you know you have no life :P

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:34 pm
by Benjamin
Did you recently...

Get a new job?
Get over an ex girlfriend?
Come to terms with something that was bothering you?
Reduce the amount of stress in your life?
Move?
Meet a new girlfriend?
Decide what you want to do with your future?

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:37 pm
by blacksnday
I now find myself wishing the world was in coding form :(

So many products out there that I want to
'edit' or 'upgrade' or 're-write'......

never before have I thought about or even looked at
while wishing I could change real-world-products until I started php...

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:51 pm
by feyd
agtlewis reminded me of:
Do you like to work with your hands, but don't like to get your fingernails dirty? Well I have a deal for you! It slices; it dices; it even julians.

But wait, there's more! You, yes, you can have this amazing invention for a limited time offer of only three easy payments of only 49.95. We've cut one entire payment off the normal retail price! You'll get the five Super-X 86 knifes, 15 butter-knifes, and eight soup spoons! But wait, there's more: today and today only folks, we will throw in, not one, not two, but three sets of dishes. That's right, a total of 480 pieces for just three easy payments of only 49.95!

repeat ad nauseum

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:30 pm
by RobertPaul
It's probably becasue the code that you really put a lot of work into has some sort of significant tangible result. And, having written the code as a means to that end, you have a (generally well earned, mind you) attachment to it.

Your quickies, on the other hand, are probably written for something you want to just get "out of the way." Leaving you with less admiration for the end result.

Makes sense to me, anyway. :wink:

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:48 pm
by s.dot
i happen to prefer the quickies over commitment

in coding speak, of course ;)

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:24 pm
by John Cartwright
When I design my OOP applications I always think of a human body, with millions of different cells performing specific actions.. so in essence I sort of see my objects as "objects" when using my analogy :)

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:43 pm
by Buddha443556
Is this something a lot of developers feel or is it just me?
Maybe ... Sometimes when I come up with a brilliant idea, code it and it actually works. It's not so much the code for me but the realization of the idea. Thought given substance.

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:45 am
by waradmin
to be honest, yes you mind does indeed process oddly. But thats just my 2 cents.