A program that works right but doesn’t solve the problem is also not very useful.
Comment on The most important goal in designing software is understandability
mdhughes@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It’s clearly secondary to correctness: A program that is well-written but doesn’t work right is worthless. Many hairy balls of mud have shipped to great acclaim.
Human readability & comprehension is nice for maintenance, but you don’t get to maintain something that never worked right to begin with.
… Of course, Windows is existence proof that you can be successful with neither.
ursakhiin@beehaw.org 4 months ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
the point the post makes is that one can’t write a piece of code that is correct without understanding it in the first place.