Re(3): KDE Community Working Group takes care of the community
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 192.168.40.186]
on September 08, 2008 05:10 AM
Oh but it doesn't. Code is a means to an ends. Like a recipe. Cooks judge a recipe for a pudding based on the PUDDING the recipe makes, not how finely worded ther recipe is or how clever the steps are or how nicely it reads on paper. Could you imagine chefs having a bake off and judging which is the best cake based on how the recipe reads? Good cooks make food that is appealing. The way it was made is irrelevant, it is the end product that matters.
Same for software. The code is merely the means of building an executable file (or in the case of a script, it IS the executable). It is how that executable runs which determines how the product (in this case KDE) performs. It might be important to developers, but developers, like chefs, make an end product. A developer that cares more about how the code reads than the usefulness of his product is like a chef that cares more about how the instructions to preheat the over are written than how palatable the food is. Granted you cant make a good cake with an awfully written recipe, just as you cant make a stable, efficient functioning program with awfully written code, but code, like a recipe serves a functional, and not aesthetic purpose.
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Re(3): KDE Community Working Group takes care of the community
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 192.168.40.186] on September 08, 2008 05:10 AMSame for software. The code is merely the means of building an executable file (or in the case of a script, it IS the executable). It is how that executable runs which determines how the product (in this case KDE) performs. It might be important to developers, but developers, like chefs, make an end product. A developer that cares more about how the code reads than the usefulness of his product is like a chef that cares more about how the instructions to preheat the over are written than how palatable the food is. Granted you cant make a good cake with an awfully written recipe, just as you cant make a stable, efficient functioning program with awfully written code, but code, like a recipe serves a functional, and not aesthetic purpose.
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