> "Code is more than just a tool," I heard he said. "It's our craft. It's our muscle. And we need to train it. Chop wood. Carry water. Code."
I seem to hear this comparison between skilled manual labor (especially carpentry) and coding come up all the time. Yet I never hear writers or mathematicians making that comparison, and I rarely hear engineers or scientists in other disciplines make it. Maybe that's just because I listen more to programmers, but I think there's an actual difference, and I wonder why that is.
I also wonder whether or not there's any connection between writing better code and using "best practices" in all your google searches. I suspect not.
I seem to hear this comparison between skilled manual labor (especially carpentry) and coding come up all the time. Yet I never hear writers or mathematicians making that comparison, and I rarely hear engineers or scientists in other disciplines make it. Maybe that's just because I listen more to programmers, but I think there's an actual difference, and I wonder why that is.
I also wonder whether or not there's any connection between writing better code and using "best practices" in all your google searches. I suspect not.