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Any discussion of handwritten code is incomplete without mentioning Edsger Dijkstra's approach, demonstrated in this beautiful interview: https://youtu.be/mLEOZ

• squarepizza 3y ago
  What a great watch, thanks for sharing. I liked his metaphor of music and transcription to programming. Writing of music is not the main function of a musician in the way that writing programs is not main function of a programmer.
• rramadass 3y ago
  Nice! However i fear his message is lost on the young'uns today (witness the comments in this thread :-). As he says in this interview, while the trivial/easy parts of programming have been automated (using IDEs/tools etc.) the hard parts will always remain and that is where thought and rigour are needed. This is where paper and pen/pencil reign supreme. They engage the whole mind and body to focus on one single task in a totally natural and free manner.
• mock-possum 3y ago
  Mozart programming versus Beethoven programming