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No, but watching a novelist at work is boring, and yet people like books that are written by humans because they speak to the condition of the human who wrote i
by Fwirt 10mo ago
No, but watching a novelist at work is boring, and yet people like books that are written by humans because they speak to the condition of the human who wrote it.
Let us not forget the old saw from SICP, “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” I feel a number of people in the industry today fail to live by that maxim.
- drivebyhooting 10mo agoThat old saw is patently false.
- paulryanrogers 10mo agoWhy? It suggests to me, having encountered it for the first time, that programs must be readable to remain useful. Otherwise they'll be increasingly difficult to execute.
- drivebyhooting 10mo agoMaybe difficult to change but they can still serve their purpose. It’s patently false in that code gets executed much more than it is read by humans.
- jimbokun 10mo agoCode that can’t be easily modified is all but useless.
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