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Programming can be art, but only extremely rarely is work programming also art programming. Even when you have the best of tools at your disposal, even when you're working with the best people and the most reasonable clients, you're still solving business requirements, not freeflowing into a design that just jumped into your mind a few seconds ago in a flash of inspiration. Solving business requirements should not, cannot be art. It should be robust and maintainable and boring. If you keep art programming and business programming separate then you'll inevitably find that one or the other does not agree with you.