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Stupid question IMHO. Programming is always design.

• ux-app 10y ago
  I should have qualified it as visual design
  • randomdata 10y ago
    Programming is also visual design. The first thing that stands out when looking at a block of code is the contrasting outline made between the characters and the spacing, and first impressions will be made based on the design merit of that appearance. This is quite intuitive if you take it to the logical extreme. If someone wrote a program that jammed all of the characters together into one long continuous block of text, you would immediately get negative feelings about the work, even without reading a single character. The same holds true even when some care went into the visual design of the code. A codebase that does not present a good visual design will feel difficult to work on, even if it is well written from a technical standpoint.
• slinger 10y ago
  There's no such thing as a stupid question
  • kowdermeister 10y ago
    Why?
    • slinger 10y ago
      "It suggests that the quest for knowledge includes failure, and that just because one person may know less than others they should not be afraid to ask rather than pretend they already know. In many cases multiple people may not know but are too afraid to ask the "stupid question"; the one who asks the question may in fact be doing a service to those around them" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_ques...