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"They found no relationship between a programmer's amount of experience and code quality or productivity." and "From years of experience, a great programmer w
by reducesuffering 10y ago
"They found no relationship between a programmer's amount of experience and code quality or productivity."
and
"From years of experience, a great programmer will know that errors are much more costly to fix later."
So which is it?
- jiaweihli 10y agoIt can be both, the "From years of experience" is figurative. Try changing it mentally to "From experience" and re-read the second sentence.
- franciscop 10y agoContrary to @iaweihli, I think the error is in the first one and that they originally meant: "They found no relationship between a 0.1x programmer's amount of experience and code quality or productivity."
- tremon 10y agoThey found no difference between a programmer with 7 years of experience and a programmer with 25 years of experience. They did find a difference between a programmer with 7 years of experience and a programmer with no experience.