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Re: user interfaces python3.x

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On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:08:04 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> (If you think text is not a proper interface, you're going to have a
> bad time as a programmer. 99% of your programming time will be
> writing.)

I'm a programmer, and I spend way more than 1% of my programming time
drawing, even taking into account that a lot of what I draw contains
writing.  A diagram is often worth a kword.  (Now if only I had a
satisfactory drawing tool on a computer; I keep running out of, paper,
wall, and window space.)

I also spend way more than 1% of my programming time thinking.  How can
this work?  How can this fail?  How can I test this?  Will this handle
tomorrow's problem (YAGNI notwithstanding)?

And then there's the time I spend listening.  Customers, managers, and
coworkers inflict (not always respectively) requirements, constraints,
and other ideas on me.  And talking, becuase sometimes, I have something
to say, too.

With all due respect, if I spent 99% of my programming time writing, I'd
be a pretty lousy programmer!  ;-)

That said, most of the best programmers I know (or have known) have
excellent written communication skills.

-- 
Dan

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user interfaces python3.x Paul Rice <lfcpaulrice@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 08:03 -0700
  Re: user interfaces python3.x Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-02 16:08 +0000
    Re: user interfaces python3.x Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2013-09-02 17:18 +0100
      Re: user interfaces python3.x Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 13:06 -0400
    Re: user interfaces python3.x Paul Rice <lfcpaulrice@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 10:00 -0700
      Re: user interfaces python3.x Joe Junior <joe.fbs.junior@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 14:16 -0300
      Re: user interfaces python3.x Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 13:30 -0400
      Re: user interfaces python3.x Joe Junior <joe.fbs.junior@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 14:45 -0300
        Re: user interfaces python3.x Paul Rice <lfcpaulrice@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 11:26 -0700
          Re: user interfaces python3.x Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-03 02:43 +0000
        Re: user interfaces python3.x Paul Rice <lfcpaulrice@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 11:28 -0700
  Re: user interfaces python3.x Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2013-09-02 17:13 +0000

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