Re:“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more i...
by dexwiz on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:58PM
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I think this approach is really common for programmers who aren't programmers first. REPL and Excel both really encourage this style due to their near instant feedback loops.
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Re:“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more i...
by sn9 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:24PM
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On the other hand, a generation of world-class programmers were raised on the REPL and interactivity (e.g., Lisp and Smalltalk programmers from the 70s-80s).
And interactivity can be an extremely effective way of experimenting and learning how things work and fit together so that you can rapidly develop a mental model of your core primitives and how to put them together in different ways.
It's also part of the appeal of TDD. Small iterative loops with rapid feedback.