Uniting the way to the new world

uWall.tv | Listen to a Wall of Music © 2021 - Privacy - Terms Holding a Program in One's Head August 2007 A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working on. Mathematicians don't answer questions by working them out on paper the way schoolchildren are taught to. That's particularly valuable at the start of a project, because initially the most important thing is to be able to change what you're doing. Your code is your understanding of the problem you're exploring. It's not easy to get a program into your head. Even the best programmers don't always have the whole program they're working on loaded into their heads. Avoid distractions. Even more striking are the number of officially sanctioned projects that manage to do all eight things wrong. It's not merely true that organizations dislike the idea of depending on individual genius, it's a tautology. Maybe we could define a new kind of organization that combined the efforts of individuals without requiring them to be interchangeable.