"Both essays and lines of code are meant - before all else - to be read and understood by human beings." - Treating Code as an Essay, Yukihiro MatsumotoSome time ago i read this sentence from book called Beautiful Code. And it felt extremely correct. Many problems i had encountered as a software engineer did indeed rise from the fact that it was extremely hard for a human being to read the code. It didn't express it's creators idea, nor what it hoped to accomplish. Sometimes this lack of expression was patched with comments, more often not even that.
Also my explorations outside of my cozy home in Java world lead me to think of programming in a whole different way than i used to. It seemed i had finally found the ability to really express my thoughts in code. I started to feel being able to really pour my thoughts about a problem at hand straight to the source code i was writing.
So this all lead to the fact that i had again a lot to say in some form. And again i chose Blogging. Starting this blog in no way means that I've abandoned the old one. Just that I felt that these matters are so much more technically oriented that they deserved a separate blog. Time will show how actively I'll be able to express my thoughts here.
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