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That’s like saying a painting, once they understand what they are trying to paint, just falls out of a painter. It is true but not useful for not-painters.
by eightysixfour 4y ago
That’s like saying a painting, once they understand what they are trying to paint, just falls out of a painter. It is true but not useful for not-painters.
- BobbyJo 4y agoI think the difference here is that code is effectively a description, so there is an extremely tight coupling between describing the task and the task itself. You could tell me, in the most painstaking detail, what you want me to paint, and I still couldn't paint it. You can take any random person on the street and tell them exactly what to type and they'd be able to "program".
- eikenberry 4y agoThat's just picking nits with the metaphor. Change it to a poet or a novelist and it works the same. If you tell a person exactly what to write they are just a fancy typewriter, not a poet or novelist. Same with code.