Coding without Grock. Is it wrong?

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Published on 2012-04-09T23:25:40Z Indexed on 2012/04/09 23:29 UTC
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Should a professional programmer allow themselves to write code without completely understanding the requirements?

In my 30+ years as a programmer I must have written many thousands of lines of code without completely understanding what is required of me at the time. In most cases the results were rubbish that should have been discarded.

Every other industry that employs professionals has systems to root out such behavior. Ours does not. Is this right?

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