[vigilanteweb]

I think the biggest part of this is the effort that she put in to have something in common with her partner. I think that it's a good reminder to everyone with a partner/spouse that putting in the effort to get your hands dirty in something they're interested is a great gift.

[MartinCron]

My wife's father is a retired mainframe programmer. As a child, she thought it was sad that her mother couldn't follow (and didn't even try) what it was that he did all day.

Just before we were to be married, my wife had dabbled in both programming and graphic design and was facing the choice of which to specialize in. She chose to go the programmer route as that would give us more common ground.

And yet, I have no interest in learning how to knit. Maybe I should try.

[kragen]

Knitting, like programming, runs the gamut from boringly easy to beyond human mental capacity.

[BHSPitMonkey]

It's like real life spaghetti code.