Ah, the age-old debate of whether code is a bedtime story 📖 or a pesky gremlin running rampant in the wild 🏃. Spoiler: It's both, but let's pretend we're too sophisticated for nuanced perspectives. Clearly, olano.dev has discovered that reading code is a zen-like ritual while running it is just a chaotic afterthought. 🙄
https://olano.dev/blog/code-is-run-more-than-read/ #codeasart #bedtimecoding #chaoticprogramming #gremlinsofthecode #readingcode #HackerNews #ngated
Code is run more than read
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
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Reading Code is a Skill - Trisha Gee
I'm inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be "I disagree with some aspects of what someone on the internet said, even though they have an entirely valid point of view". But that's less catchy. I saw a Tweet I agreed vehemently with, … Continue reading "Reading Code is a Skill"
Design Patterns, Smalltalk, and the Lost Art of Reading Code
The last year has not been kind to a book that I believe to be one of the classic, and most important works of computer science — the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented…
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