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> Are you sure he produced as much in the same amount of time and didn’t work longer outside of office hours? I wonder if due to reduced typing speed the devel
by mistersquid 6y ago
> Are you sure he produced as much in the same amount of time and didn’t work longer outside of office hours?
I wonder if due to reduced typing speed the developer in question had a higher ratio of kept code to deleted code.
Someone only able to type 3 words per minute may have developed patterns of thought and deliberation that maximize those 3 words rather than follow development habits of faster typists that might be prone to generate code which never sees the light of day.
I type quickly and have no qualms about deleting entire stanzas of code and rewriting them when things don't work out. If I could only type 3 words per minute, my approach to writing code would radically change, perhaps for the better.
- daniellarusso 6y agoI have seen this in practice multiple times. A ‘prolific’ codewriter, writing a ton of code, most of which is thrown away. Would we assume a novelist that types faster writes better stories?