Why Programming is Difficult

[Richmond]

On 08/02/14 08:40, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Without reading the article, I can think of one principle I have employed in all my time working with computers: Computers never do what you want them to. They only do what you tell them to.
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Indeed; the main problem is NOT with the computers; it is the mismatch 
between the way humans think
and the way computers work.

At the risk of antagonising all those naive realist, mechanistic types 
who think we are
Dawkinian machines (hey, just coined a clever word), we have feelings 
and mood swings
which a computer does not, and never will have.

Richmond.

P.S. Where's my coffee? My left shoulder is aching, and I need the loo.

Now, find a computer that is going to be affected by any of those!