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Whatever happened to programming
published March 13, 2010
There is a discussion about Whatever happened to programming at TheServerSide.com. It is a fact that programming nowadays is more like gluing components together to solve a problem than coding low level data structures from scratch. Some people are seeing this as a bad thing and feel that programming has become monotonic and uninventive. However, we must remember the real reason why we are writing the code (or gluing the components) in the first place.
Every single line we write should have a valid business reason to exist. Every line should have a measurable ROI for the business, which is of course very hard to measure, but this kind of thinking should be reasoning behind all actions taken in a project. As size of our problems increase we must increase our level of working as well as our producivity. The program code is not written for programmers, it is written for the business. For the business, quality and productivity matter way more than the fact that a programmer might feel his job monotonic. Tough luck, there are about billion future coders in China, someone will be interested. I feel that software developers in general should be more interested in business ROI than they currently are.
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