I spend far more time reading code and thinking about code than I ever do writing code. Writing code using characters is no more an issue than writing email usi

I spend far more time reading code and thinking about code than I ever do writing code. Writing code using characters is no more an issue than writing email using characters. Language is a powerful, appropriate technology. Problems simple enough to be solved by plugging software components together are also simple enough to be solved with a few lines of code, but that's not where the actual work lies. Writing code is effortless compared to the work of thinking out the design of the code that needs to be written, and that work would need to happen regardless of the interface.