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It is interesting to observe that TDD (or our intelligent IDE) actually makes programmers never think. They tend to develop in more ad-hoc way: Google some exam
by liuliu 17y ago
It is interesting to observe that TDD (or our intelligent IDE) actually makes programmers never think. They tend to develop in more ad-hoc way: Google some example code snippet, change the order and play around with some parameters, fix the Eclipse "syntax error" hint and try it out until it works.
EDIT: yes, it is just plain wrong, no excuse. But I am trying to point out that it truly happened and I am curious about why or how.
- WalterGR 17y agoHogwash. No good developer does what you describe, no matter what tools they use.
- liuliu 17y agoThat is my point. But it trained many incompetent programmers who fancy they can do the job "just right" in the market.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoGood? No. But making a living writing code, maybe even important code? Far more likely than you'd like to think.
- WalterGR 17y ago> But making a living writing code, maybe even important code? Far more likely than you'd like to think. I've never seen developers who work this way: not in industry - not even in college. In my experience, the "mess around with the code arbitrarily until it works" style described by liuliu is the programmer's equivalent of a moral panic. Everyone talks about it and laments it, but it doesn't really happen.