{"id":1402,"date":"2007-02-04T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/programmers-dont-like-to-code\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T16:20:12","slug":"programmers-dont-like-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/programmers-dont-like-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmers Don&rsquo;t Like to Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nJonathan \u201cWolf\u201d Rentzsch wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.com\/notes\/programmersDontLikeToCode\">excellent rebuttal<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/int\/2007\/02\/03\/leonard\/print.html\">Scott \u201cDreaming in Code\u201d Rosenberg<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.com\/notes\/programmersDontLikeToCode\">\r\n<p>Programmers desire to rewrite because they know that after starting with a clean sheet of paper and building it all again, at the end they\u2019ll understand the whole. <em>Programmers write code to learn.<\/em>\u2026Bad source bases irritate programmers because it shakes their foundation of understanding necessary to solve the problem. I reject the explanation that programmers capriciously want to rewrite code for the fun of it.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Update: also check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.com\/notes\/programmersDontLikeToCodeFollowup\">responses<\/a> he got.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan \u201cWolf\u201d Rentzsch wrote an excellent rebuttal to Scott \u201cDreaming in Code\u201d Rosenberg: Programmers desire to rewrite because they know that after starting with a clean sheet of paper and building it all again, at the end they\u2019ll understand the whole. Programmers write code to learn.\u2026Bad source bases irritate programmers because it shakes their foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}