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Re:My Year in Review: 2019 by jarnagin on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:10AM (#21772387)
It’s true. When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile. You just have to deploy and deal with exceptions bubbling up to your end users.
Re:My Year in Review: 2019 by babesh on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:22AM (#21772502)
You read your writing to yourself and other people. That is how Mark Twain did it.

"Twain frequently read drafts of his work aloud to his family, judging its effectiveness by their ..."

Re:My Year in Review: 2019 by SolaceQuantum on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:43AM (#21772738)
"When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile."

There are actually programs, like IDEs, that will catch syntax errors and stylistic errors in writing. Executing the writing program is as simple as having the story read to you via a text-to-speech or human labor. That an end user doesn't appreciate the writing is no different than when a user of a UI finds it unintuitive.

Re:My Year in Review: 2019 by NateEag on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:43PM (#21774859)
I have used one or two of those and found them worse than useless.

What programs are you thinking of?

Re:My Year in Review: 2019 by boris on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:49AM (#21772805)
Isn't this how things work in dynamic languages like Python?