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The Old New Thing : Comparing writing specifications to writing code<\/a><\/p>\n

“Writing specifications is like writing a novel. Writing code is like writing poetry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How true that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Writing specifications is like writing a novel. Writing code is like writing poetry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4611,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2014\/10\/10\/things-wish-id-known-started-programming\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":0},"title":"Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started Programming","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been programming for more than a few years now, but sometimes I like to look back at things I wrote when I was much younger, and reflect on how much I've learned since then. 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