[Courses] [C Programming] Anyone still here?

[Laurel Fan]

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:16:44AM -0700, Dave North wrote:
> Julie:
> > Designing software is a dying skill.  Most of the
> > programmers I work with today code first and never design.
> 
> It's surprising (and maybe a little scary) how often I hear that. The time
> pressures on just about everyone (and the disposability of most code) seem
> to be encouraging this situation.

Personally, I think prototyping is a perfectly valid design method.
Of course, the prototype has to be carefully hidden from managers who
can't tell the difference between "code" and "the code".

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