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Reasons we don’t write code like we used to
- hinkley 7y agoWhen I think about how much complexity was in the first applications I worked on, versus just what I’ve written in the last month? It’s not good.
- bcrl 7y agoSo much of modern programming is error handling. PRINT never failed in my BASIC programs until I started working with files. And all of that error handling code needs test cases, logging infrastructure, then more programs to parse those logs. Perhaps someday, Vernor Vinge's vision of AIs that sit atop the thousands of years old systems to manage all that complexity might come to pass. Not sure that will be any better, but it will at least be hidden.
- commandlinefan 7y ago6. Scrum
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoProgramming often seems to be more about configuring various frameworks than figuring out how to express business rules or work flows in logic and then source code.