Re:3 lines of code shouldn't take all day
by regularfry on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:33PM
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I genuinely don't know what to make of the handedness argument. On the one hand it makes a sort of intuitive sense (we're all individuals! Of course we all do things differently!) On the other we're all running on the same hardware, give or take. It strikes me as like learning styles: yes, people might have expressed preferences, but if you run the numbers we do all learn in fundamentally the same way, independently of what we say we prefer.
Or lisp. Or smalltalk. Or forth. There's an entire subfield of computer science, headed by some prestigious people, who believe that working in a REPL is better precisely for these reasons.
At this point I deploy the left-handed user argument: different developers probably find these tools and workflows have drastically different effects on their productivity.
Perhaps also a "code kata" thing. It may be worthwhile to make beginners do each for a few months just so they have the experience (and find out their own "handedness")