The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and quality of abstraction

Re:The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and qu... by jwdunne on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:31AM (#26931217)

This is an excellent comment and illuminates what I’ve come to realise myself re. the parallels of writing and programming.

In fact, writing is a core part of my workflow: I write to problem solve. A clear problem definition and potential solution makes building the solution much, much easier.

The linked article, unfortunately, buries the lede. When the headline is “Simple Writing”, it’d be a better piece if it started with that from the first sentence.

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Re:The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and qu... by mattmanser on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:39AM (#26931249)

If it was so good, they'd have followed their own advice.

It took them 250+ words to write "simplicity is good".

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Re:The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and qu... by austincheney on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:56AM (#26931327)

I have found that obtuse specificity is necessary on the subject because programmers are in general principally concerned with least effort and falsely conflate simplicity for that least effort via the word easy. It is not about good.

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Re:The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and qu... by jwdunne on Sunday April 25, 2021 @05:26AM (#26931435)

Not sure if that’s the point of the comment. The point of the linked text, maybe, which is why I offered my critique.

If “simplicity is good” was the only thing you took away from the comment, you might want to re-read it.

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