At school you will have been given problems like this:
"If a man can build a wall in 5 days, how long will it take five men to build the same wall?"
The answer, of course, is one day - making all the usual assumptions. And that will be more or less true in the case of wall building
How about symphonies? If it takes Beethoven five years to write a symphony, how long will it take a team of 100 music graduates? Well, if if were a wall, maybe about 18 days.
Here is another question: "what would a symphony written in 18 days by 100 music graduates sound like?"
And the answer is: "Terrible"
Now as it happens I have written tens of thousands of lines of computer code over a period of more than 50 years. I have the 10,000 hours of coding that makes you an "expert". I have written programs in FORTRAN, Visual Basic 6, vb.net, C, C++, ASP, PHP, Java Script and ASM. So I do know about this shit.
So absorb this: "writing code is like writing a symphony - a computer program written by a coder of genius in three months, will be way better than one written over two years by a team of 100 computing graduates"
How that will help you? I don't know. But it is a fact
Bob Cory
Modified on 25/08/2023 at 13:47:30 by ℗ Bob Cory