5 ms·
Programmers are known as "people who do not like to repeat themselves" but they spend their days typing the same brackets and 5 words. (If, else, for/foreach, s
by stephengillie 10y ago
Programmers are known as "people who do not like to repeat themselves" but they spend their days typing the same brackets and 5 words. (If, else, for/foreach, select/case, string...)
The next step is writing software that can write software. Maybe automated automation can't write a self-driving algorithm, but automation should be able to write the code to send email to a list of addresses.
We shouldn't automate dumb things. We should automate the automation of dumb things.
- ghuntley 10y agoMaybe having to repeat those brackets and 5 words are soul reason why programmers don't like to repeat themselves? </showerThought>
- stephengillie 10y agoIf you always write the brackets when you write the "if", why not write a function that writes both for you?