On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > MJ Ray escribe: > > Both of the situations are biased - each person will probably think their > > preferred occupation is more creative or worthwhile. If they thought > > otherwise, they'd probably be doing the other task. Why is this news > > to anyone? > > With the difference that the programmer needs what he's programming > to *work* according to a suite of specs.
Specifications are not an intrinsic part of programming any more than they are in painting. I suggest reading _The Tao of Programming_. Don Armstrong -- I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system to be refuted by experience. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ ยง6 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu