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Programmers don't understand code all that much. They understand it at the moment they write it, and they can understand it when they focus on reading it, but o
by hasenj 16y ago
Programmers don't understand code all that much. They understand it at the moment they write it, and they can understand it when they focus on reading it, but other than that, they rely on the machine to execute it.
- AndyKelley 16y agoKind sir, have a look at http://www.python.org/ http://www.python.org/
- hasenj 16y agoI work in python all the time, kind dude. And, are you suggesting legalese to lawyers is like python to us? Even if it was: I can't execute a python module in my head! I can read it several times and I might have a guess at what it does, but I can never execute it as well as a machine does. Also, I would invariable end up with bugs that I can only fix by inspecting how the machine executes the code, for example by stepping it through a debugger, or running portions of it in an interactive interpreter (aka REPL).