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by whehhshs 48 days ago
Can you type a hundred lines a second? If not, then it is.

Code is obscenely low level.

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> Can you type a hundred lines a second? If not, then it is.

No one has ever needed to do that for something that is new. And if it’s not new, you want to do it repeatedly with some guarantee of reliability. Not just in an uncontrolled manner.

That is why we have snippet systems, macros and code generators. And the best with code is to solve problem once and reuse the solution. Which we have done with libraries, frameworks and supporting software.