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Isn't following a recipe to make food exactly the definition of cooking? Maybe they meant that a chef has to invent original dishes but I think the whole cookin
by porknubbins 6y ago
Isn't following a recipe to make food exactly the definition of cooking? Maybe they meant that a chef has to invent original dishes but I think the whole cooking metaphor fails to map to programming since its mass production vs programming being essentially always custom one off.
- fridif 6y agoIf I dictated every ascii character of Romeo and Juliet to you, would you then call yourself a playwright? I would call you a good typist. EDIT: I never cook with a recipe and do everything by taste, feel, and instinct.
- watwut 6y agoThen you should have used Romeo and Juliet example instead of cooking example. Following receipt is in fact cooking. You can go by feel, but you don't have to. Majority of cooking is following receipt, whether written or not.