Coding without Grock. Is it wrong?
- by OldCurmudgeon
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?