[_TwoFinger]

> I find very long BTD loops to be personally offensive though

Encountering these in my very first programming job made me learn make(1).

The thing is, I'm not very bright and my work "style" involves a fair share of trial and error. Obviously, all this waiting prevented me from doing my thing, so I eventually rewrote the whole build system just so I can do more trial-and-error.

I've always considered my dependency on a fast BTD loop a weakness, though. I guess the majority of developers can just imagine what the code does in their head and only make the changes when they know what they're doing.

[celticmusic]

it's not a weakness, it's productive. Anyone writing a lot of code without testing it is doing things in a subpar manner. This isn't about intelligence.