“Programming is the act of turning an inexact description of a problem (a specification) into an exact one (a program)” @joeerl #qconlondon

Mar 5, 2014 · 10:30 AM UTC

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@stilkov @joeerl If you have a good RE, there is an exact description that you can transform to code.
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@dkrizic @joeerl If you can transform it into code without manual intervention, it already is a program.
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@stilkov @raganwald @joeerl Your success is determined by how well you guess what the original problem was.
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@stilkov @joeerl @fanf I'd argue it's an iterative process rather than a single act, eg. feature creep, inexact spec, etc.
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@stilkov @base10 @joeerl Very good, except I would have said "... the art of...". When we do code one way because it's "elegant", it's art.
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@stilkov @boskabout @joeerl I would even say the aRt of (thanks to Jan Hoet).