And 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 c

And 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.