Re:Why great coders get paid far too little
by Elfan on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @07:37PM
(#1621)
I think that ties into what the author said about the advantage of mediocre teams for long term projects. Its sometimes better to having something kludgy and understandable than an elegant hack that no one else will understand.
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Re:Why great coders get paid far too little
by andrewcooke on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:21PM
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You're presenting a false dichotomy. You don't get smaller code by making it incomprehensible. It gets smaller because it's cleaner and clearer.
Think of the problem in terms of compression. You can compress via syntax or by semantics. In the first case you end up with gzip and an unreadable compact mess. In the second you end up with a better, more elegant program, expressed via core, largely orthogonal concepts. For some reason you seem to think that a good programmer works like gzip. That's simply wrong.