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Fwirttoday at 12:26 AM1 replyview on HN

No, but watching a novelist at work is boring, and yet people like books that are written by humans because they speak to the condition of the human who wrote it.

Let us not forget the old saw from SICP, “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” I feel a number of people in the industry today fail to live by that maxim.


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drivebyhootingtoday at 1:22 AM

That old saw is patently false.

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