A Personal Philosophy of Excellent Engineering
Talkat GCAP 2022: Ambition · on Tuesday, 2022-10-04· at 10:00· Room 109, 1 Convention Centre Place South Wharf, Victoria 3006·
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Argues that programming languages are a method for communicating with humans first and backs it with the maintenance claim that roughly 80–90% of software cost is upkeep, citing touching 12‑year‑old World of Tanks code. Recommends concrete habits: read code top→bottom, in a diff and in review (three passes), try a small standalone project like a heap allocator readable without comments, and follow the recipe understand then communicate then compile to reduce bugs and speed debugging.
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