Common Fundamental Theorem of Software Development

Re:Common Fundamental Theorem of Software Development by maxander on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:37PM (#11270847)

I think your conclusion might be vacuous, or at least oversimplified. What is "value"? If we don't assume that it takes a programmer a set amount of time to write any line of code (and I know it takes me much longer to do linear algebra in Haskell than bung out a bunch of arithmetic in Python), any manager would be just as happy with B. B might even be more maintainable- it might be so long because its done in Knuthian-style literate programming, say- or have other virtues above A, increasing its "value," by most peoples' estimation.

What in particular do you mean when you say A is "greater"?

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Re:Common Fundamental Theorem of Software Development by highCs on Friday March 11, 2016 @09:07PM (#11270955)

Greater means anything that you can think of that would be greater for a program. For example, it would be faster. It would be more maintainable. It would be more everything.

We ultimately don't have to prove it. We only have to agree together. (Another way of saying this is that it's unprovable, but every programming master will tell you it's true)

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