Re:Nobody's just reading your code
by klenwell on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:56PM
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> But something we forget often is... the goal of reading code is almost always to understand a system or some part of it. And reading code for me is a terrible way to do it.
Good point. A couple famous quotes that speak to this[0]:
Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious.
-- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
Good point. A couple famous quotes that speak to this[0]:
Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious.
-- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
-- Linus Torvalds
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487819