E.W. Dijkstra: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight". Personally, I think, much of the art of programming is to do as much as possible with as few lines of code as possible.
Coding is when we're least productive
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#12Oh, that must be fun to be hired by the client directly... I wish each my programming job was not an ivory tower :(
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#13E.W. Dijkstra: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight". Personally, I think, much of the art of programming is to do as much as possible with as few lines of code as possible.
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#14Never seen that happen. Do not know anyone who experienced this. Where and who are those managers?
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#15„Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev teams produce, and so they maximise the time devs spend writing code.„ Never seen that happen. Do not know anyone who experienced this. Where and who are those managers?
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#16Coding is the 5 minute result for an hour of thinking.
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#17„Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev teams produce, and so they maximise the time devs spend writing code.„ Never seen that happen. Do not know anyone who experienced this. Where and who are those managers?
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#18Coding is the 5 minute result for an hour of thinking.
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#19This is one reason I always roll my eyes when people talk about how vim keyboard bindings are so great because you don't have to move your fingers from the home row. The actual action of typing text is a small part of the process of coding.
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#20E.W. Dijkstra: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight". Personally, I think, much of the art of programming is to do as much as possible with as few lines of code as possible.
That’s Bill Gates’, not Dijkstra’s.