Programmers are obsessed with ease rather than simplicity (thank you Rich Hickey for making this point); or, what t

he experience of programming is

instead of what

the resulting program is like

. This leads to useless conversations about semicolons and whether we need a preprocessor that eliminates curly braces. We still talk about programming as if typing in the code was the hard part. It’s not – the hard part is maintaining the code.