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> In part because most people are no good at writing to communicate complex ideas to others. Developers are no better, and may in fact be worse. The entire poi
by bmitc 4y ago
> In part because most people are no good at writing to communicate complex ideas to others. Developers are no better, and may in fact be worse.
The entire point of writing software is to communicate complex ideas to others.
- cratermoon 4y ago"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." – Martin Fowler. Most programers are no good at writing code the communicates to other humans. They write code that computers can understand, which is a completely different skill.