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This is not what he said. > There are very different programming styles. I tend to see them as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart started to write, the compo
by gregorygoc 3y ago
This is not what he said.
> There are very different programming styles. I tend to see them as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart started to write, the composition was finished. He wrote the manuscript in one go. In beautiful handwriting, too. Beethoven was a doubter and a struggler, who started writing before he finished the composition and then glued corrections onto the page.
- pareidolia 3y agoHe did say that having successive revisions is doing it wrong. Literal quote (from the translation) "So then you get these version numbers, even with decimals, version 2.6 or 2.7. That's nonsense. While version 1 should have been the finished product." So I think the nuance you are trying to make is unsupported. He did mean: think it through once, write it out once, version 1. Done.
- gregorygoc 3y agoHaving a final output as a single version of the product does not imply anything about the production process behind it.