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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
by 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 agoyes, 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 agoSummary 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 agono 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 agoTo me, that's equivalent :)* * that's highly subjective
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoThere 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.