I have to disagree somewhat with me(!). Programming is much more an engineering discipline than a creative process. A case in point: the earlier thread today about 10x latency spike. If the latency spikes don't meet user expectation (or a formal requirement), the program is not "done". Replacing map[int]slice with map[int](base, limit) is a tradeoff (one among many). Making such tradeoffs is just part of the engineering process.
If your program has to handle a certain level of load, it should be tested with such load (or scaled down load that can be extrapolated to full scale) and make the changes necessary to achieve that. If it has to have 99.95% uptime, you will need redundancy. If it has to quickly recover from a crash without loss of data, that may require using atomic transactions. Add security as well! All these requirements will change your "beautiful" masterpiece into something potentially ugly and boring. A high level language makes this engineering process easier but you, the programmer (team), still have to design, build, test and tweak a solution until it meets your requirements; you can't expect the compiler to do all the heavy lifting (which is almost always specific to a problem). You can still employ your skill and creativity in fit & finish and design & clarity of your code and occasionally coming up with a brilliant new algorithm. None of that will be stifled just because you can't format your Go code in your favorite C style! > On Jul 27, 2017, at 3:40 PM, me <yout...@z505.com> wrote: > > As for comparing programming to driving on the road: Okay but programming is > and extremely creative effort, sort of like writing a novel with mathematics > in it. The argument is that you take away people's creativity, with tools > like GoFmt, in the same way forcing a super creative person to write a poem a > certain way, or forcing someone to use a certain style of mathematics in a > paper (which, could be a good thing depending on the case - but if it is a > really creative looney mathematician, you will want him to write like a wild > stallion, free as can be and let him create his masterpiece) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
