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by kaashif
396 days ago
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To allow you to write more readable and extensible code, that can solve real problems more effectively. Solving problems is the point of writing code. Saying that reading code is the point of writing code is crazy, that's like saying the point of writing scripts is to read them, or the point of writing sheet music is to look at it. No - the point of writing a script is to have it performed as a play, the point of writing music is to hear it and enjoy it. The point of writing code is to run it. > All these abstractions are good because they are useful when modeling a problem. Then what do you do after modeling the problem? You solve it! You run the program! Everything is in service to that. |
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No one does it in isolation. The goal of having a common formal notation is for everyone to share solution unambiguously with each other. We have mathematical notation, choreographic notation, music notation, electric notation,... because when you've created something, you want to share it as best as possible to others. If not, you could just ship the end result and be done with it.
So no the point of writing music is not to hear it and enjoy it. To do so you just find an instrument and perform. You do not to do anything else. But to have someone else to do it, you can rely on their ear, their sights and their memory to pick things up. Or you just use the common notation to exchange the piece of music.