Which programming task do you hate most?

[NormDroid]

I guess your a contractor, or a permie looking at a contractors code :) Norm

[Paul Watson]

Making HTML cross browser and cross platform compliant i.e. Netscape. My other pet hate is extending other peoples code. Everyone has their own style of coding and it can be a nightmare. OF course I am sure other people hate extending my code too :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Chretien Malesherbes

[Daniel Turini]

Everything that is close to programming but is not programming. Documenting, time & cost estimates, managing a group of programmers, charging customers. Everything else is fun. :cool: Furor fit laesa saepius patientia

[GogglesPisano]

Time and cost estimates -- nothing frightens me more than when my manager walks into my office and begins his sentence with "Um, how hard would it be...".:eek:

[Michael P Butler]

I hate the actual typing in of the code. I love the design and specification side of it and working out classes and objects etc. I really hate the typing of the code, especially if it is boring stuff like read data from a recordset or setting the columns of a list control. Luckily I'm starting to build up a good library of code and templates help a great deal too. I just hate the typing :-) Michael :-)

[Steven Hicks n 1]

I can not stand debugging one of my programs when it works on my comp, but it doesn't work correctly on someone else's. Visit Ltpb.8m.com Surf the web faster than ever: http://www.404Browser.com

[John Fisher]

I like most parts of programming (since solving problems is the whole reason I like it). However, I really don't like the times where I'm told to write such-and-such an application, but finding out how it's supposed to look and behave is worse than pulling teeth with scotch tape. When that happens, I generally have to scrap a bunch of code and re-write it later since I didn't know about one "little" thing it needed to do. John

[Jarek G]

Well how about this! Correcting tests for 40 students "code written down on paper" X| Explaining the same stuff over and over again :eek: Grading projects :confused: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." -Albert Einstein

[Djibril]

That's right. But I took a habit that helps from making such an error: int i; if ( 0 == i ) { // do some stuff } By mistake, if you type "if ( 0 = i )", it won't compile. Where there is a WISH, there is a WILL.

[Djibril]

Oh I hate this. I hate planning and telling how much time I need. Where there is a WISH, there is a WILL.

[Djibril]

say it again ! :( Where there is a WISH, there is a WILL.

[George Chastain]

You would think that SOMEDAY they all might reach a point of fully supporting some standards so cross-browser development wouldn't be such a B-I itch. :) Then, there is that ever present worry of, "well, all of my target audience may not have the latest browser anyway." WillCodeForMoney

[Paul Watson]

..."charging customers"... lol that is the FUN bit. Chasing customers on money terms is no fun but charging them is wonderful :) ..."managing a group of programmers"... depends on your team. Enthusiastic, clever and helpful chaps are great to manage and you learn a lot. Insolent buggers who think they know better are only good for firing or giving the crap jobs to (like documenting, time & cost estimates and technical support ;) ) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Chretien Malesherbes