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Absolutely. The best programmers I know make mistakes constantly, but have developed ways of working that ensure they get found early. For some people that me
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Absolutely. The best programmers I know make mistakes constantly, but have developed ways of working that ensure they get found early.
For some people that means using TDD, for others (like me) it means semi-formally deriving code and running checks during writing.
So no, making mistakes while writing is not a measure of programmer quality.
- lelele 16y ago> The best programmers I know make mistakes constantly, but have developed ways of working that ensure they get found early. That's what I do. You don't make the same mistake twice in the same section of code: sometimes the code is wrong, sometimes tests are wrong, never both.