[dasil003]

Software is logic manifest, there is no limit to what can be coded. At any layer of the stack you can radically reenvision the way things are currently done in order to create a new way of doing things, and in no other creative endeavor can you so fully control the minutest detail from the smallest atom to the grandest super-structure. The reason we have design patterns is precisely because the possibilities are so wide open that we need some structure and convention to aid communication and comprehension between programmers.

If you're just churning out cookie cutter patterns you need to get a new job or side project and rediscover the magic.

[BSousa]

I'm going to go with the gp on this. I've worked as a programmer for 12+ years (and a few good more as a hobby). I've worked in various industries developing software (games, AI, QA for chemical processes, CRMs for Wine producers, Financial Institutions) and I just don't understand all this talk about programming being so special that we are 'creative' and not everyone can be a programmer talks, and all that new age crap I see exposed here in HN.

When you are learning, yes, probably it is different, but you reach a point when you see programming most things as a chore. There is no magic or unlimited possibilities. There is a goal, and you code to get there. Can we just stop with this bull crap about we being special snowflakes? Just look at your description of software: 'smallest atom to the grandest super-structure' -- Seriously?

[buckbova]

Well said.

I agree the language comes after the object, not the other way around. And speaking the same language is important.

I'm actually an architect and it does seem a bit routine for me to hammer out design specs nowadays.