"So then you must wonder, what is programming for?"
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"And having walked around in this field for 25 years, I think the sad answer is that programming is to make programmers happy, and programming is to make programmers proud. That's what it's for.
"Because the people that care about social change, they have left the building. So the people that remain are the people that care about complex systems.
"And of course there might be a few people that also care about social change and also about complex systems. But if you look at our field, this is what programming is for, right? Everything must be made more complicated and more interesting, so that we have a more interesting life, very much this external life and not the moral, internal life."
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