I'll agree with you mostly there! :)

Mr. AmigaOS C/Assembly, OS9, OSX (PPC and UB), MS-DOS BASIC/C/Assembly, Linux C/C++, Pascal, Basic, LISP, Java, C, C++, Python, Commodore 64/128 BASIC/Assembly, Windows (since 3.0), LegOS, unwanted excursions into Perl, Javascript, HTML, PHP, etc. and so on. here.  ;D

I love programming!  Actually, I tried (very hard) to swerve away from it into 3D CG.  Now look at me - I'm doing 3D CG ... programming.... What can I say?  You can remove the boy from the programming, but not the programming from the boy.

In my case, AI became boring.  After one realizes that neural networks really require multiprocessors and oodles of memory to simulate neural activity in real domains, it is tough to do as a 'hobby'.  More power to Rodney Brooks, I say.  Luckily, computers are slowly reaching the potential required - maybe in another decade (?).

My main ambitions are two-fold: make something that I would use and that other people would use - it's no use second-guessing what others want - and I want the same advantages. :)  As you noted - programmers who program but do not use their own programs suck.  One should design and develop as if you were going to use it and use it- otherwise the process is pointless.

You'll also note that I'm a firm supporter of openess in code dispersion.  I really hate protecting algorithms and solutions as 'proprietary'.  Holding back others for one's own profit is not how progress is achieved (see topic under 'Scientific Method').

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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