The Philosophy of Code
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“Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.” - Charles M. Strauss
Some other great quotes in this presentation I found: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R4MyWsF6kLSgkXtxHUYzg66JyJytD_ML-pPdNQclQjw/edit#slide=id.g15c95c3_1_53
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“Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.” - Charles M. Strauss
Some other great quotes in this presentation I found: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R4MyWsF6kLSgkXtxHUYzg66JyJytD_ML-pPdNQclQjw/edit#slide=id.g15c95c3_1_53
Well said,
most work in programming is to handle the chaos of new ideas in your head, sort possibilities, and bring the most important ones into a program
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This is true. You are using a control of language and boundaries to control the physics of the world. To legislate on someone else’s experience in the future.
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This is true. You are using a control of language and boundaries to control the physics of the world. To legislate on someone else’s experience in the future.
That’s a great way of putting it.
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To legislate on someone else’s experience in the future.
Scary way of putting it. Slightly… ;)
