Documentation & Books

[Richard Gaskin]

Wolfgang M.Bereuter wrote:
> If you are interested in getting the big potential of creativity of the 
> right brainers, they are about 50% of the  mankind, but I belive less 
> than 5% of the programmers, then you have to give them a 
> brainfriendly(!) documentation.

Is the problem really just documentation, or could there be something 
inherent in the nature of programming that doesn't appeal as strongly to 
"right-brainers"?

The majority of the world's population is under 6 ft. tall, yet only a 
small subset do well in basketball, no matter how many books describe 
the rules of the game.

If you'll pardon the reductio ad absurdum, there's a point to it:

Programming is an analytic meditation, in which a goal is broken down 
into tasks, and those tasks broken down into lines of code.  While I 
believe good programming also involves the "right-brain" skill of 
pattern recognition, the analytic nature of the task may be a 
contributing factor to why programming is something only a subset of 
humanity finds enjoyable.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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