From Writing Software to Writing
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010“Writing is more challenging than writing software”
Dmitry Vostokov
I think I haven’t noticed the so called midlife crisis after I started to blogging, writing and publishing. More important, I transferred my software engineering skills directly to writing and publishing books. Although, honestly, much has to be done to improve these new activities. On 29-07-2004, I complained on a famous Russian RSDN form (original, translated from Russian):
“After so many years of continuous reading of computer books there’s nothing to read anymore. All good books have been read and the rest is not worth reading or they just repeat the same. Please don’t tell me about “life”, I have family and kids. I moved to reading computer science books, logic and foundation of mathematics. After that, programming is no longer interesting to me. Could it be a midlife crisis?”
Actually, after more than 5 years of uninterrupted memory dump analysis since that post, programming didn’t become less interesting but I gained more insights into the workings of Software where previously I considered mastering semantics of C++ or UML skills the highest possible achievement of a software engineer.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
