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unsupp0rted • today at 1:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you can test well enough, both manually and automated, then it's okay if there's a bunch of stupid mistakes in the code, as long as the end result works right. Not unlike biology.


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LPisGood • today at 3:55 PM

If you view creating programs like an optimization problem over the feasible region of valid programs, this is not unreasonable.