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The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
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[…] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling.
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Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face (as it were), we encounter this urge to apologize for the current techniques and to seek improvement?
This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame.
Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date the moment it's written, and difficult to write […]
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Code craft starts at the codeface; it's where we love to be. We programmers are never happier than when immersed in an editor, bashing out line after line of perfectly formed and well-executed source code.