Re:Programming is hard
by catlifeonmars on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:42PM
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Heh, good code is the kind you can throw away once you’ve used it to sell stakeholders on an idea. It’s contextual. Or, to put it another way: is a very structurally sound bridge located on a road that no one uses considered a “good” bridge?
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I'd raise a difference between good and useful then. That is still a good bridge, but it's not a useful one. I think that also transfers to programming. That also raises that what makes a bridge good is not usefulness it's perhaps structural quality. Maybe the only thing that makes programming good is usefulness in which case my point is moot.