> I would put most corporate programming into the bin of 'craft', much more than 'art'.
A former corporate programmer who was a highly paid corporate programmer at the time when he told me this is that all they do is very fast simple arithmetic. Add and subtract.
Great hackers on the PG spectrum may get struck by inspiration and may outperform the average corporate programmer by 10x or 100x or more and work crazy hours while the creative electricity buzzes.
Apple has bunny hopped hardware architectures, successfully. The time is right to switch from the 70s FreeBSD software environment to Bell Labs's 9P concept-oriented operating system jazzed up with Apple's delightfully intuitive UX Pixar styled art and animation. Linux is a step sideways from the BSDs.
A former corporate programmer who was a highly paid corporate programmer at the time when he told me this is that all they do is very fast simple arithmetic. Add and subtract.
Great hackers on the PG spectrum may get struck by inspiration and may outperform the average corporate programmer by 10x or 100x or more and work crazy hours while the creative electricity buzzes.