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It's easier to write code than to read and understand someone else's code. And you need to at least read some code to add to it. It's hard to learn another lan
by samsquire 4y ago
It's easier to write code than to read and understand someone else's code. And you need to at least read some code to add to it.
It's hard to learn another language than use the language you know. (Both computer programming languages and real languages)
Mass collaboration could be our goal, if we can create software that is inherently understandable and malleable.
The problem is that every line of code has a maintenance and understandability burden.
If you can create a system where development is as easy as casual contribution such as editing a wiki page or writing a comment that would be awesome.
- Beltalowda 4y agoNothing about this is specific to software; it happens everywhere. Wikipedia was mentioned in the article, as well as various other examples.
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