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He revealed the secrets ! (jlai.lu)
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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some time ago:

  • Me: "Programming is fun, but user interfaces are a PITA"
  • CS student: "What!? The algorithms I'm given to solve are really complicated!"
  • After a year on a job: "I hate testing user interfaces..."

Some other day:

  • Me: "Programming is mostly copy&paste"
  • Engineering student: "What!? We have to come up with a new solution for every problem!"
  • After a year on a job: "I don't program anymore, just copy&paste..."

Told ya.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Programming is mostly copy&paste

I don't know what y'all are working on but these comments always scare me ...

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

No matter what you work on, programming is one of:

  • Check the documentation for a library, copy&paste the interface call, fill in the blanks.
  • Pick the best algorithm for the case at hand, copy&paste, change a few variable names.
  • Get out your snippets archive, copy&paste the one you need.
  • Write some boilerplate, copy&paste over and over, then fill in the blanks.
  • Look up how someone else solved your problem, replicate it in a way that doesn't look like copy&paste.
  • Once in a blue moon, come up against an actually novel problem, spend some days figuring out the best way to solve it... then copy&paste the solution back into the project.

Doesn't matter what you're working on, in the end it's mostly copy&paste 😂