Falsehoods programmers believe about programming

&gt; There is some innate affinity for computer programming which you must be born with, and cannot be taught.<p>This being a falsehood is a matter of considerable debate, and it&#x27;s impossible to prove (There are certainly some people with very low ability for computer programming, to the point of effectively useless. How would you prove this was entirely nurture and not nature?). This is a not a good candidate for a &quot;list of falsehoods&quot; article.

I have this hypothesis that everything I believe is wrong. Probably best not to cling too tightly to beliefs.

&gt; Compiled languages are always faster.<p>More like: there is such a thing as a &quot;compiled language&quot;.

&gt; at least the outcome of <i>integer</i> maths is always defined.<p>Assuming you mean “integer arithmetic”, the answer is a resounding <i>yes</i>, it&#x27;s well-defined. Of course, so-called “machine integers” are not a faithful model of the integers, and, in particular, so-called “signed integers” in C aren&#x27;t a faithful model of anything nice.

List of article themes that are played out

Reminds me <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;programmer.97things.oreilly.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Write_Code_for_Humans_not_Machines" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;programmer.97things.oreilly.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Write_...</a>

<i>bug-free computer hardware is completely deterministic</i><p>This. The CPU has been a chaos box for at least the past 17 years. If not longer.

Not a good sign when the very first item is entirely subjective.

Terrible list. Lots of things are straw men, or just wrong. And do we <i>really</i> need another one of these lists? Next we&#x27;ll be back to &quot;X considered harmful&quot;. Ugh.

&quot;Swift is a good language&quot;