All these professions require a mix of procedural and declarative skill. Pilots and surgeons aren't professional athletes, they rely on enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.
The easiest time to catch a mistake is when it's made, which is as true of surgery or flight as of software development.
That's why I rely on type systems, tests and whenever I can, someone next to me asking "why?".
The easiest time to catch a mistake is when it's made, which is as true of surgery or flight as of software development.
That's why I rely on type systems, tests and whenever I can, someone next to me asking "why?".