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Discussion on: 5 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS

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Laughing Raven

Writing code is in no way like writing in a natural language. Programming has much more rigor, both in it's design and in it's implementation. It is more akin to writing a mathematical or logical proof.

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Zohar Peled

Well, yes and no. True, the rules are more rigid and there's very little room to play compared to a natural lanugage, but still, the code writing is not the hard part, which was my main point (though admittedly, not so clear in hindsight)