Which conditions leads to addicting for programming !!!!

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I want to know which conditions leads to addicting to programming

Posted 30-Nov-12 17:56pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-11-30T18:50:00

Which conditions? For example, stupidity. :-)
OK, I'll try to explain…

My question might look surprising or controversial: in certain sense, I never ever saw a person addictive to programming. I suspect such people do not exist.

With one important "but": a person can become addictive to sitting behind the screen for a long time, wasting one's health, working with some code and some IDE for a long time, even writing code or working with some codes, debugging, etc. I just don't call every such activity "programming". You see, addiction is a term for unhealthy behavior. But real programming is truly creative and productive activity. When a person becomes addictive to just writing code, debugging, and the like, this activity may resemble programming in all details, but only formally. In the addiction stage of it, it is never "real" programming. "Real" programming happens in presence of self-control and clear mind, understanding the sense of activity and its value, deep consciousness.

Of course I understand this is all about terminology. Very often, "addiction" is understood not in its literal meaning, as something relatively good; and, from the other hand, "programming" can be nearly everything. I just see some value in considering more narrow and specific meaning of these words, to derive some morale from the story.

Good luck, stay sane,

—SA