> "I hate programming"
It's true! And there's nothing to really be said about it. If I liked programming I wouldn't write functions or create reusable pieces of code. I believe every good engineer loathes programming, and wants to do of little of it as necessary to get the job done.
Also note, just because one loves programming does not mean one enjoys repetitively writing the same code, over and over again. Note to mention the fact that duplicating code within a project (instead of creating "reusable pieces of code") creates design problems and maintainability issues.
I believe most good engineers ejoy employing an elegant solution, and focusing on the problem to be solved. They don;t enjoy solving the same old problem ("Gotta write another data access layer now, before I can build the fun part of the app . . ." as an example) over and over again by writing what amounts to boilerplate code.
That's the fun part. Typing is an exercise best left for Mavis Beacon.
I think programming to a large extent is a learning experience, and you adapt the solution as you learn more trying to solve the problem. For me at least it is a lot more iterative than simply typing the solution.
That's just reductive sniping for the sake of it. The word programming obviously implies a more abstract process than "filling up text files by typing".