Going “Write-Only”
> To program any more was pointless. My programs would never live as long as [Kafka’s] The Trial.<p>As a programmer, I want to believe I'm a writer, a poet, a sculptor.<p>But the truth is programmers are dancers, mimes, ventriloquists.  We're performance artists, and the systems we program really only have meaning as long as we keep programming them (or, if we're really lucky, someone else takes up the dance when we grow tired of it).  Once we take our final bows, the programs will fade away and die and all that will be left is a memory of the performance.