The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
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Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#2Quite an interesting article. The best part is that the article does not judge. It simply lays down facts for us and leaves the opinionated part onto us.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#3Quite an interesting article. The best part is that the article does not judge. It simply lays down facts for us and leaves the opinionated part onto us.
I thought this was a fictional story.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#4Wow, as someone who is going to start doing Computer Science next year, I had already heard that most of programming is about thinking, but had no idea that is was to the point of 5 lines of code per day being exceptional.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#5Quite an interesting article. The best part is that the article does not judge. It simply lays down facts for us and leaves the opinionated part onto us.
I thought this was a fictional story.
It might be the most fictional story ever written about programming.
It's completely ridiculous.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#6Quite an interesting article. The best part is that the article does not judge. It simply lays down facts for us and leaves the opinionated part onto us.
I thought this was a fictional story.
It might be, my intention was to highlight the fact that the article is laid down as a set of facts with no judgement. It's not like Charles was a hero. It just shows how Alan was rewarded. It's like reading something as simple as fate.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#7Quite an interesting article. The best part is that the article does not judge. It simply lays down facts for us and leaves the opinionated part onto us.
Is this sarcasm? The article pretty clearly judges in an extremely opinionated way.
It's a shame it never actually stated the specification of the program. It seems like that would be the kind of thing you would need to know to form a fair opinion.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#8Wow, as someone who is going to start doing Computer Science next year, I had already heard that most of programming is about thinking, but had no idea that is was to the point of 5 lines of code per day being exceptional.
Don't wait until next year. Start programming now. School is good to learn computer science; school is not needed to learn how to program.
Don't read anything into the 5 lines of code per day. This is a pretty old article and even then, that would only be a reasonable figure if you take a large number of people on a large project and compute an average for everyone. In other words, counting refactoring, fixing bugs, re-writing things, doing administrative work, and so on towards the time elapsed. And even then it would vary so much from one project to the next that you couldn't get a reasonable representative number, though 5 LOC per day would certainly be possible.
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#9This brings to mind the maxim, "A job, no matter how small, will grow to fit the time and resources available".
Re: The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
#10Quite an interesting article. The best part is that the article does not judge. It simply lays down facts for us and leaves the opinionated part onto us.
Is this sarcasm? The article pretty clearly judges in an extremely opinionated way. It's a shame it never actually stated the specification of the program. It seems like that would be the kind of thing you would need to know to form a fair opinion.
It's not sarcasm. I really interpreted the article this way. Might not be the correct interpretation.