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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It would be nice if it was possible to describe perfectly what a program is supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone should invent some kind of database of syntax, like a... code

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But it would need to be reliable with a syntax, like some kind of grammar.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People could give things a name and write down what type of thing it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

We don't want anything amateur. It has to be a professional codegrammar.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What, like some kind of design requirements?

Heresy!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Design requirements are too ambiguous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Design requirements are what it should do, not how it does it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That's why you must negotiate or clarify what is being asked. Once it has been accepted, it is not ambiguous anymore as long as you respect it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm a systems analyst, or in agile terminology "a designer" as I'm responsible for "design artifacts"

Our designs are usually unambiguous

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think our man meant in terms of real-world situations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And NOT yet another front page written in ReactJS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, well, that's good, because I have a ton of people who work with Angular and not React.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This still isn't specific enough to specify exactly what the computer will do. There are an infinite number of python programs that could print Hello World in the terminal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I knew it, i should've asked for assembly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah but that's a lot of writing. Much less effort to get the plagiarism machine to write it instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ha

None of us would have jobs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think the joke is that that is literally what coding, is.