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I don't agree! I know many programmers, that just write the code. For example: what problem is solved by the developer when he/she coding the login page? It

• kowdermeister 10y ago
  Have you even read the article? TLDR; You are not only writing instructions for the compiler but for your future self and your fellow programmers. How can you disagree with that?
  • sztwiorok 10y ago
    yes, I have red and I don't agree. I do not like such a generalization. a summary of the entire article is: "a programer does not primarily write code; rather, he primarily writes to another programer about his problem solution." I agree with one: there are good programers and there are bad programers. I don't agree, that bad programers die young ;) Today there are more bad than good programmers.
    • kowdermeister 10y ago
      Summary is: communication is more important than writing syntactically correct programs. No offense, but you have some trouble understanding the language. If you re-read it, it say that young programmer'S code die young, not the programmers themselves :)
      • sztwiorok 10y ago
        no offence taken. I agree with this: "communication is more important than writing syntactically correct programs" but article is titled: "what a programmer does" not "what is the most important in a programer job"
        • kowdermeister 10y ago
          To me, that's equivalent :)* * that's highly subjective
  • seanmcdirmid 10y ago
    There is throw away code, one offs, and solutions that have immediate but not lasting values. Programming has been overloaded to mean a wide range of activities, from casual data analysis tasks to avionics engineering.