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by Twisol 228 days ago
> But no advice that you give about "the correct philosophy" is going to instantly transfer enough knowledge to make all large companies write good code, if only they followed it.

Good old "Programming as Theory Building". It's almost impossible to achieve this kind of transfer without already having the requisite lived experience.

[0]: https://ratfactor.com/papers/naur1_theory_building.pdf

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