[racket] OFFTOPIC - Quote on Programming

My personal experience is that a good and detailed design is hard to
get to *without* doing the coding.
  -Patrick

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jos Koot <jos.koot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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