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Programming is easy to the programmers.

Art is easy to the artist.

Writing is easy to the writer.

Music is easy to the musician.

I am a programmer, writer and musician, but I don’t find any of them easy.

Programming is unique, though, because the tools you use to do it can also be used to make the task in general much easier.

Should have explained. Some people find some tasks come natural to them so they think they are inherently easy for everyone. while others find other tasks come naturally to them. Humans are different. Music is more or less impossible for me. I am sure programming is impossible for someone else. Math is logical and easy to me. I used to tutor my friends after school on the homework that was assigned thinking "how us this not not completely straightforward to you, this is simple." yet they thought things I couldn't grasp were simple.

Lets not ignore differences in humans and say programming is easy because it isn't to a large number of people.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/is-it-...

One of my favorite differences between my painting and my programming is that it is much easier to clean up my work space after programming---no brushes to clean :)

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