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Hogwash. No good developer does what you describe, no matter what tools they use.

• liuliu 17y ago
  That is my point. But it trained many incompetent programmers who fancy they can do the job "just right" in the market.
• InclinedPlane 17y ago
  Good? 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.