> 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 i

> 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.