For anyone with an enormous amount of time to spare but either want to enter or experience writing code, this article was referred to me a few days ago… I highly recommend it as an entertaining way to understand what Coding is whether you have no background or are an experienced, long in the tooth Dev Programming Manager, or some CEO who wonders what is going on in Dev.
Enjoy! But, it may take a week or more to read through the whole thing! (It’s like an entertainging War and Peace, but packed with what I consider absolutely true reflections and recollections if you are learning, writing, or managing code writers).
Thanks for the link, I just started on it and it seems quite realistic. I’m no programmer, but having worked in some large companies, I have seen this chock when new tech meets top management.
Coming from engineering, it took me ages to understand middle management, and how one can’t function effectively without the other - although I still tend to the Dilbert POV sometimes.
On 2015-06-19, tsu2 <tsu2@no-mx.forums.microfocus.com> wrote:
> Enjoy! But, it may take a week or more to read through the whole thing!
> (It’s like an entertainging War and Peace, but packed with what I
> consider absolutely true reflections and recollections if you are
> learning, writing, or managing code writers).
Thanks for the post Tsu; very entertaining (though long!) article! It doesn’t get too bogged down with OOP vs procedural
arguments and delivers realistic programmers perspective. It’s focus on the modern side, and maybe it’s a bit of shame
that an article titled What is code?' only mentions assembler’ twice and machine code' once (and not even a single mention of Pascal’!). Perhaps these days, compilers are considered nothing more than magical `black boxes’ that
perform ritualistic voodoo mystically transforming code to executable binaries.
