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Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by kazinator on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:44PM (#19894053)
Not every human who can speak a language is a great speaker, storyteller or writer.

Writing a program is like a very detailed story that has to hang together. There can't be any loose ends in the plot or surprising twists that make no logical sense.

More than requiring language, programming requires thought.

The faculty of language doesn't confirm thought.

Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by gingabriska on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:30AM (#19896621)
> Writing a program is like a very detailed story that has to hang together. There can't be any loose ends in the plot or surprising twists that make no logical sense.

Those lose ends are called bugs and they often appear in the code. Coding a collaborative task in most companies, even if you've obvious holes in your plot, someone will see and fix them if they are not obvious to you.