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You can use the computer to check whether you are doing the right thing by trying it out, but the computer will not tell you whether your program is organized i
by lohengramm 12y ago
You can use the computer to check whether you are doing the right thing by trying it out, but the computer will not tell you whether your program is organized in the best possible way, whether it is to be considered beautiful or not, or even, sometimes, whether it is efficient enough. To achieve all these points you really have to think, and it is just like building anything else, from texts to mechanical devices.
Of course, its not abstract modeling; there is a necessary amount of technical knowledge to it, but so there is with anything else.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoYou are in a dance with the computer, there is a reliable feedback loop if you want to test or do perf, there is a truth to it. But with writing, you might not get any feedback at all, or very little. Building things is quite different from communicating.