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Writing code is easy; designing software is hard

In reading an article about SciPy, the author has this gem:

The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done.

I mean gem quite literally. This, in the end, is the core difficulty that people seem not to grasp about writing good software. Writing lots of code is trivial; any monkey, or IDE can do it. The difficulty comes in the concept and more importantly the domain knowledge around the problem. For me, that’s 90% of the problem.

This is why I say languages don’t matter that much. Knowledge is language-insensitive.