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Writing is in many ways programming other people. It also has structure, function, and interaction. Not so different.



The "coding is the same as writing" meme really should stop being subscribed to. It's soo different.


It’s true. When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile. You just have to deploy and deal with exceptions bubbling up to your end users.


You read your writing to yourself and other people. That is how Mark Twain did it.

"Twain frequently read drafts of his work aloud to his family, judging its effectiveness by their ..."


"When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile."

There are actually programs, like IDEs, that will catch syntax errors and stylistic errors in writing. Executing the writing program is as simple as having the story read to you via a text-to-speech or human labor. That an end user doesn't appreciate the writing is no different than when a user of a UI finds it unintuitive.


I have used one or two of those and found them worse than useless.

What programs are you thinking of?


Isn't this how things work in dynamic languages like Python?


How about providing evidence and reasoning instead of spouting off?




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