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Is the speed of typing English a problem for you? Or is it that you have to think about which sentences to write and how best to express your thoughts. If you have learned a foreign language, think about the speed you express the same idea in said language.

At least for me, typing code (in a language I know) is as easy as typing English (which is not my native language, but something I’m reasonably fluent in). Thinking in terms of generic computing concepts is equally as easy. Most of my time is spent on not contradicting what has been written before, not on what I need to express. Because the software needs to be coherent.

So the speed of coding is slow, because of all the double checks I need to do. Not because I don’t know which statements to introduce next. And that thinking happens at a meta level (state and its alterations) not at the syntax level.

parent skydhash 1 month ago

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