a: Misplaced semicolon ~
b: sports car with one piston out of line
What: "Coding taught me the shape of logic, the value of brevity, and the attention to detail that debugging requires. I learned that a beautiful program with a single misplaced semicolon is like a sports car with one piston out of line. Both are dead machines, functionally indistinguishable from junk. I learned that you are good enough to build things that do what they are supposed to do, or you are not."
Useful?
Writer: Kevin Carey
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Date: Oct 15 2013 8:13 PM
# 4078 Critique Analogy