Re:Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
by pareidolia on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:15AM
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He did say that having successive revisions is doing it wrong. Literal quote (from the translation)
"So then you get these version numbers, even with decimals, version 2.6 or 2.7. That's nonsense. While version 1 should have been the finished product."
So I think the nuance you are trying to make is unsupported. He did mean: think it through once, write it out once, version 1. Done.
Re:Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
by gregorygoc on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:58PM
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Having a final output as a single version of the product does not imply anything about the production process behind it.
> There are very different programming styles. I tend to see them as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart started to write, the composition was finished. He wrote the manuscript in one go. In beautiful handwriting, too. Beethoven was a doubter and a struggler, who started writing before he finished the composition and then glued corrections onto the page.