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<time>5 May 2024</time>
<h1>Respect</h1>
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<p>As a programmer, one of my primary tasks is to <em>represent</em> some domain knowledge. I don't need to be an
expert. It helps, but having a grasp of things is enough. To build this grasp, I use books, references, or you know, a
helpful expert.
<p>I spend a lot of time reading, talking, playing around, trying to understand things enough to be able to synthesize a
good design. After making one, it gets pushed into the feedback loop and sooner or later a next iteration gets the same
treatment.
<p>After, depending on the field, a month, a year, or two, I finally get <em>a good grasp of it</em>. There's always
complexity left, knowledge to process, skills to master, or things to discover.
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<p>It's amazing.
<p>All I want to have is pure respect towards the people involved and appreciation to author of references I use and
experts I talk with.
<p>Because of the "meta" nature of programming, I have seen myself forgetting about this basic statement. I have seen
serious iterations of "software will [magically] handle it" and some weird software development messiah complex.
Somehow, I managed to avoid these extremes and I'm thankful for that.</p>
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<p>What I didn't manage to avoid is the kind of "cultism" that we have within the programming field itself. X is the
only true way of doing everything. Y is the worst abomination that humankind ever witnessed. You shall never do Z,
because it is wrong, because you shall never do Z.
<p>Of course, these are exaggerated. Yet, how many times did I deny some piece of code or opinion because it didn't
match my usual approach? How many times did I look at 10 or 20 year old code as if it was the worst thing that ever
happened to me? How many times did I discard someone's workflow simply because they mismatched mine? All, a non-zero
amount of times.
<p>I'd rather not. I want to dive into new fields with respect and simple curiosity, and appreciate things as I learn
more. I want to play around with programming languages, paradigms and codebases the same way. And I better not forget.
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