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"Almost all programmers type fast, say 400+ characters per minute. So how long does it take to write one two lines of simple text explaining your code?
by whyme 16y ago
"Almost all programmers type fast, say 400+ characters
per minute. So how long does it take to write one two
lines of simple text explaining your code? 15 seconds
maybe?"
OMG - is this true? He can't be talking about code - can he? I'm lone programmer & self taught. If it's true I must really suck because it takes me so much longer it's not funny. LoL - I have to stop and think, for minutes, almost all the time.
- nostrademons 16y agoI don't usually have to stop and think for documentation, though. That's the idea - you're just putting down what's already in your head so that the maintainer can read it. That said, I usually find that the documentation I write ends up becoming out-of-date about 5 minutes after I write it, because code changes in the process of writing it down. I might write down a docstring to clarify my thoughts, but then the function I actually write doesn't do exactly what I thought it would, and I have to go back and remove or cleanup the docstring later.
- bobds 16y agoProgrammers who type that fast might not have enough time to think. Typing speed is never the bottleneck.
- 5teev 16y agoTrue, one of the most accomplished programmers I know merely hunts and pecks on the keyboard.