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Holding a Program in One's Head -- not too convincing
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 09 2012 @ 08:41 PM EST
Not obvious if this is a reply or not, or what you're trying
to get at. Sorry if I'm missing something.

(Many ordinary (regarded as patentable) machines will also
get thought through in someones head, overall and in parts,
and before touching/moving/building anyting)

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Holding a Program in One's Head -- not too convincing
Authored by: soronlin on Monday, December 10 2012 @ 03:38 PM EST
You only have to resort to notes if you can't hold it in your head. Everything else flows from the code.

Some people do, some people go the way of notes and design documents before committing to code; it's down to personal ability. Personally, I don't program rationally; I program intuitively. Sometimes that lets me see a solution quickly, sometimes, when my mental model doesn't match the code, it's the opposite. Similarly when I read a book I don't read words, I just watch the action taking place. That really slows me down when the prose is too turgid and confused for that to work, but when it works it is like the best Hollywood film ever.

It's called flow and it is well understood and documented. It has nothing to do with patents.

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