[racket] OFFTOPIC - Quote on Programming

One remark down intermixed in your email.
Jos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at racket-lang.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom
> Sent: martes, 19 de marzo de 2013 15:15
> To: users at racket-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [racket] OFFTOPIC - Quote on Programming
> 
> I forget where that quotation came from originally, but it 
> antedated the 
> days where internal documentation was the norm.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:20:57AM +0100, Jos Koot wrote:
> > Well, that may depend on how you define "clever code". 
> Surely it is clever
> > to write well documented code that can easily be 
> understood, debugged,
> > maintained and reused by yourself and by others. 
> 
> The "clever" refers to cleverness merely in producing a 
> foemalism that 
> appears to work.
> 
> > Understanding may require
> > knowledge of the discipline the code is written for, of 
> course. In my
> > opinion it helps a lot first finishing the documentation 
> and the design
> > (both user and 'inside' docs) before starting coding.
> 
> You're talking about metacleverness -- the know-yourself kind of 
> cleverness that acknowledges your own limitations and take them into 
> account.
> 
> > With good and well
> > described design it is even possible to leave the coding to 
> another person,
> > just like an architect designs a building and constructors build it.
> > My 2c, Jos
> 
> I've never found it to be feasible to leave the coding to another 
> person, except in cases where the remaining coding is so 
> trivial that a 
> machine could do it.

I have experienced some good things leaving the coding to others. I think
that in some cases a good and detailed design makes coding almost trivial.

> 
> [ In which case it makes sense to use a compiler.  :-) ]
> 
> -- hendrik
> > 
> > From: users-bounces at racket-lang.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org]
> > On Behalf Of Harry Spier
> > Sent: martes, 19 de marzo de 2013 2:56
> > To: users
> > Subject: [racket] OFFTOPIC - Quote on Programming
> > 
> > 
> > I found this quote on a blog and couldn't help sharing it :-)
> > 
> > 
> > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> > Therefore if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are by
> > definition not smart enough to debug it." Brian Kernigan
> > 
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