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May. 11th, 2006 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI think my brain is hardwired to solve problems in the most elegant way. This has good consequences (I got a good degree from Cambridge, am paid £n0k/yr to program, and can beat Tony at noughts and crosses generalisations) and bad consequences (I don't like asking for directions or other help, I find it hard to get on well with people, etc).
When I was young, it used to almost be a point of pride that I didn't comment my code. Now I do so quite well, or so I believe. But I think both stem from the same underlying trait. When I was young, I saw the problem as "Write this program." Now, the problem has evolved into "Write this program so it works, and solves a specific problem, and in the future update it with the least possible effort."
When I was young, it used to almost be a point of pride that I didn't comment my code. Now I do so quite well, or so I believe. But I think both stem from the same underlying trait. When I was young, I saw the problem as "Write this program." Now, the problem has evolved into "Write this program so it works, and solves a specific problem, and in the future update it with the least possible effort."
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Date: 2006-05-11 04:24 pm (UTC)/* magic happens */ :P
ROFL. Of course, sometimes that's the right comment -- if the author doesn't understand the code then that is a correct comment and the problem is in the code not the commenting :)