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This article didn't say it produced better code. It said it forced him to think carefully about what he was doing before he input the code to the system, which
by JohnMakin 3y ago
This article didn't say it produced better code. It said it forced him to think carefully about what he was doing before he input the code to the system, which made him a better programmer. This is very plausible. Lots of people, especially beginners, love to just spaghetti their way to a solution rather than taking 30 seconds to think about what they're trying to do and if this is the best way of doing it.
- drpixie 3y agoAnd make people better programmer it did :) It's very usual now (and for the last 20-30 years) to see programmers live a loop of more-or-less randomly change code and see if it runs, repeat... Their code will eventually run, and pass the tests, but will be terrible - not understandable, inefficient, and break when confronted with reality or better tests. When it was quicker and easier to think about the code, than play with it, people generally produced higher quality code.
- bregma 3y agoI think the word you're looking for is 'agile'.