Re:You are never taught how to build quality software
by Dalewyn on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:38AM
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Yeah, you're misunderstanding.
What we are discussing isn't a real programmer we might actually find. No, we are talking about a hypothetical "perfect" programmer. This "perfect" programmer never wrote a bug in his entire life right from the moment he was born, he never had a "when they were less experienced" phase.
Obviously, that means this "perfect" programmer also never debugged anything. For all the perfect code he writes, that makes him worse than a programmer who writes buggy code but also knows how to go about debugging them.
What we are discussing isn't a real programmer we might actually find. No, we are talking about a hypothetical "perfect" programmer. This "perfect" programmer never wrote a bug in his entire life right from the moment he was born, he never had a "when they were less experienced" phase.
Obviously, that means this "perfect" programmer also never debugged anything. For all the perfect code he writes, that makes him worse than a programmer who writes buggy code but also knows how to go about debugging them.