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Completely agree. Reading another engineer's code recently, which had egregiously bad names, the following thought occurred to me: Writing software is like wri
by gregfjohnson 3y ago
Completely agree. Reading another engineer's code recently, which had egregiously bad names, the following thought occurred to me:
Writing software is like writing poetry.
Finding the words that perfectly capture and express the essence of your thinking and the underlying model or theory behind your code is so important. In software as in poetry, one is always on the lookout for that "mot juste".