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Re:Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft by paulddraper on Monday November 11, 2019 @02:24PM (#21507964)
This conversation is simply the English-equivalent of TDD conversations.

* Conventional development = writing, then editing

* Test-driven development = writing and editing simultaneously

The preferences are endless and neither removes the most difficult part which is the conceptual architecture.

Personally, I like to splatter a whole bunch of ideas down first and then later go back and commit.

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Re:Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft by whlr on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:13PM (#21508968)
There are some parallels, but I don't know if the writing:editing::programming:testing analogy is very strong. I think editing is more like refactoring than anything else, but I hesitate to make parallels between code and prose in general.
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