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I think we're talking about typing time, right? Because if say, 75% of your time is spent debugging in an "regular" language then you really aren't saving much
by melling 8y ago
I think we're talking about typing time, right?
Because if say, 75% of your time is spent debugging in an "regular" language then you really aren't saving much time by reducing the amount of code you must write.
If we could reduce programming to typing in mostly correct code then software development will be much faster, even if the code we type is 50% longer.
- learc83 8y agoNo, no one is talking about typing time--well at least not just typing time.
- bluGill 8y agoThat 75% of the time is spent with a mostly functioning program though. There are a lot of cases where getting something now is worth overall spending 10x as much time getting it right latter. Of course everyone wants the best of both worlds: everything now, zero bugs. Fast, cheap, right: pick two applies despite everyone wanting all three.
- melling 8y agoWhere did the 10x come from? I thought we were discussing the trade-offs of typing a little more to guarantee correctness, or at least eliminate a class of software errors. You're doing that Appeal to the Extremes Fallacy: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/30/Appeal-to-Extremes https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
- bluGill 8y agoExactly, those are the trade offs. I'm not falling into appeal to extreme, even though I did point out an extreme.