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Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)

3 pointsby Ivoahalmost 8 years ago

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teolandonalmost 8 years ago
&gt;So what did we learn?<p>&gt;Honestly? I’m not quite sure. The story has a nice poetic justice to itself though, and I promise that I really didn’t make any of this up – all of this actually happened like I described!<p>While I don&#x27;t think this story is that unbelievable, I also was struggling to find an actual moral or what to take away from it, all the while smiling because it&#x27;s such a nice story.<p>I think it&#x27;s mainly because in today&#x27;s world, there&#x27;s really no use for small compiled code. This is such a niche little problem that I don&#x27;t honestly see many programmers using Lekktor.<p>I guess one thing that could be taken as a lesson for some people is that writing a program for something is much faster than doing it by hand sometimes. I learned that stuff when getting into using Vim, since even for tasks that I didn&#x27;t see myself doing that much, I would write some Vimscript to take care of it instead of going through a file and doing it manually. This applies to big projects and one-off tasks too! Computers are faster than us in repetitive tasks, and we can be really fast at writing instructions to them to perform those tasks for us. Scripting your way through a problem quickly is a very very valuable skill IMO.<p>Also, can&#x27;t help but laugh at the stuff that got left out due to the test trials not being diverse enough. Can&#x27;t scroll up on the menu. Oops.