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Re:Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014) by ksk on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:40AM (#16413862)
Right, but when you hire an architect to design a random office building, you're not expecting a piece of art. My point is the vast majority of programming projects are random office building # 23.
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Re:Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014) by wellpast on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:47AM (#16413916)
Then we’re in the realm of automated or at least codified/systematic process, or we should be, no?
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Re:Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014) by ksk on Monday February 19, 2018 @12:23PM (#16414176)
Yes, and we should be encouraging more of that. But as programmers (well to my mind anyway) it nags us when we look at inefficient solutions, even those which are reasonably robost/adequate. We tend to scoff at people using Visual Basic to solve a business problem, when its probably the best language for a large chunk of the problem space.
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