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What is it like in this relatively new field? Could there be, for instance, a similarity between a struggling young writer and a struggling young programmer?
"You have to be creative in bothfields," Lannie pointed out, a viewwhich was often echoed. Vaughn, however, points out that''"the process of programming versuswriting is different. With writing youcan be inexact.''" "Programs normally speak forthemselves in terms of quality,'' " Swettsays. "Writing is more subjective." However, he says, a similarityarises in having to make "very smallstrides on the way to establishingcredibility-estahlishing establishing a business.''" "There's a lot of programmers outthere who are trying to get a good programout like authors trying to get agood book out," says Emory. "Everyonce in a while one will come out with areally good one and make it big."
"When you're writing a program,
more often than not you' re working