Coding Horror: Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers

When people say "this sucks" they mean one or more of the following:

  • This doesn't do what I need
  • I can't figure out how to do what I need
  • This is unnecessarily frustrating and complex
  • This breaks all the time
  • It's so ugly I want to vomit just so I have something prettier to look at
  • It doesn't map to my understanding of the universe
  • I'm thinking about the tool, instead of my work
via codinghorror.com

This article doesn't suck. If you are a software developer - read it. Now