Cow Girl Farmer (Cuddlebeam)

[danielsangeo]

Originally Posted by Muhznit

I mean, with drawings, at least the paper doesn't complain about a missing semicolon, undefined variable, or outright throw a segmentation fault in your face. Same goes for animation, music production, and writing; you are the sole force that decides whether or not it can be considered what you intended it to be. With programming, everything you do is algorithmically scrutinized by inhuman entities.

But undoing an error is much easier. CTRL-Z, versus redoing the entire thing over again.

[Muhznit]

Originally Posted by danielsangeo

But undoing an error is much easier. CTRL-Z, versus redoing the entire thing over again.

AHAHAHA NOPE.

You'd think that would be the case, but keep in mind an average programming project spans months, possibly even years, across multiple files in multiple folders, and possibly across multiple systems once you start doing cross-compatible stuff. Ctrl + Z is only effective for college essays and other small projects where you'll only need to undo the changes of one file in one session.

Really ambitious programming projects require revision control, like Git or Subversion. Sometimes, clients/customers/forum members will request features that require nearly an entire rewrite of a huge chunk of the program, and you'll want to have branches that you can check out and build off of. Heck, sometimes you'll need to rewrite an entire class file just because you're hitting a bottleneck where you've optimized the fuck out of it down to the assembly code itself.