Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at Scale 22x: Coding Isn't Programming

Re:Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at Scale 22x: Coding ... by haswell on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:17AM (#43470849)

Building a bridge and building a sand castle are two entirely different things.

Each impressive in their own way, but clearly there is a difference both in terms of the skills required and the outcomes enabled.

I think the specific term used matters less than the ability to distinguish between different types of building things.

If you want to build a bridge, you’re not going to hire the sand castle builder if sand castles are all they have built.

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Re:Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at Scale 22x: Coding ... by 9rx on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:40AM (#43471173)

In this case they all refer to building the same thing, but at different steps in the process. Theoretically each step could be carried out by a different person, but in modern practice it would be quite unusual to do so – which is why they can be, and are, used interchangeably. If someone is doing one of them it is almost certain they are doing all of them.

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Re:Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at Scale 22x: Coding ... by johnisgood on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:25AM (#43470956)

Yes, using a browser is different from writing a program, and there is a difference between "writing (or copy pasting) a script" and [...].

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