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Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

A 1.1-hour talk by Thomas Figg about software engineering, programming culture and software complexity, on the Programming shelf. It was posted to r/programming as “"Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted" The funniest most inspiring programming talk I've ever seen.”.

Thomas Figg, Talk, 1 h 7 min, 2013, on the Programming shelf

An EMF 2012 talk reflecting humorously on difficult and dysfunctional aspects of programming.

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