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Re:The Shapes of Code by classified on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:05AM (#22168589)
I'm not sure whether I should envy or pity you. Writing code that is that obvious and boring cannot be very fulfilling. How long until a machine does that for you (after all, automating boring and obvious stuff is what we programmers do)? OTOH, on days where I feel lazy I can only wish my world were that simple.
Re:The Shapes of Code by gobayesgo on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:13AM (#22190573)
Any monkey can puke thousands of lines of code. Producing code so boring that fellow humans can understand it immediately is the real challenge in programming. It requires much more effort and care than blaming everyone else for not understanding a sophisticated pile of mess.