99.5% of programming isn't actually about the coding at all. It is about breaking down a process to steps small enough to express in code. It is about figuring out what you want the app to do in the first place, and making it meets the goals of the end users. Or, to be more realistic, making it meet the goals that product owners have handed to you on behalf of the end users.
This whole article just feels like it is talking about code for its own sake, which I admit may be intellectually interesting, but has little to do with what we actually do day-to-day when building software.
Maybe that was really the point he was trying to get to - that building software is not the same thing as doing "interesting" code.
This whole article just feels like it is talking about code for its own sake, which I admit may be intellectually interesting, but has little to do with what we actually do day-to-day when building software.
Maybe that was really the point he was trying to get to - that building software is not the same thing as doing "interesting" code.