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Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the high notes" always comes to mind for me when this debate arises.
by wpasc 7y ago
Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the high notes" always comes to mind for me when this debate arises.
- teddyh 7y agoLink: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-notes/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n...
- goatinaboat 7y agoSpolsky is a 10x blogger. Neither he nor any of his employees were ever 10x programmers. There was nothing algorithmically clever about FogBugz or CityDesk or whatever.
- lolc 7y agoDid you miss how they cross-compiled Vbscript to PHP? I'd say for a lot of programmers this would have been quite the challenge, algorithmically speaking. And I would classify it as clever. With both the positive and negative connotations of the word.