Most software engineers still view software construction as the task of manipula...

coliveira on March 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go

Most software engineers still view software construction as the task of manipulating text files. That is why they have such a fascination with lines of code. People coming from a different programming tradition such as SmallTalk or APL know that this makes no sense.