"Of all the cruel tricks in software engineering, this has to be the cruelest. Most of us entered this field because the machines are so much more logical than people. And yet, even when you're writing code explicitly intended for the machine, you're still writing for other people. Fallible, flawed, distracted human beings just like you. And that's the truly difficult part." https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-its-just-writing/
Coding: It's Just Writing

In The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White, James Devlin does a typically excellent job of examining something I've been noticing myself over the last five years: The unexpected relationship between writing code and writing. There is perhaps no greater single reference on the topic of writing than Strunk and

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@codinghorror "you're still writing for other people" – 100%, and what's more: one of those 'other people' is you, six months down the line, who's done ten other things since and can't remember the code…
On The Meaning of “Coding Horror”

In a recent web search, I found the following comment in a programming.reddit.com thread from eight months ago, completely by accident: I think prog.reddit will continue to move in phases... a couple of days ago, someone complained about a drop-off in Haskell articles, today there were 4

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