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Summary of the blog post: - Programming and writing are similar - In writing you have rules (natural language grammar), in coding you also have rules (formal
by tyrrrzhn 5y ago
Summary of the blog post:
- Programming and writing are similar
- In writing you have rules (natural language grammar), in coding you also have rules (formal language grammar)
- In writing you build big things from small things. Small things must be nice. Big things must also be nice. Small things must align with big things. Like coding.
- If you don't write you're lazy. If you don't code you're lazy. Very similar.
- BUT actually writing and programming are completely different because in one you work for years on a single piece which cannot be changed after it's released, so you torture yourself to make sure it's as perfect as it can be without going insane -- and if you give up at any point along the journey then all of your efforts are basically wasted, WHILE in programming you have objective criteria by which you can judge if something is good enough, release working but imperfect parts of the final product along the way, modify things as you see fit at any point, and even if you decide to stop along the way -- it's fine because your progress is incremental
- polypodiopsi 5y agoI consider this sort of polemic, reductive summary utterly impolite. You left out the really important point: the suggestion that writing code could benefit from approaching it like one had only one shot at it, instead of patching smth. together that might or might not be improved upon incrememtally later on. This sort of summary you did there is not in good faith.