10 Hard Truths Developers Must Learn To Accept

[ Thanks to snydeq for
this link. ]

“Developer hard truth No. 1: It’s all just if-then-else
statements

“Language designers argue about closures, typing, and amazing
abstractions, but in the end, it’s just clever packaging wrapped
around good, old if-then-else statements.

“That’s pretty much all the hardware offers. Yes, there are op
codes for moving data in and out of memory and op codes for
arithmetic, but the rest is branch or not branch based on some
comparison.

“Folks who dabble in artificial intelligence put a more
mysterious cloak around these if-then-else statements, but at the
end of the day, the clever statistical recommendation engine is
going to choose the largest or smallest value from some matrix of
numbers. It will perform calculations, then skim through the list,
saying, ‘If this greater, else if this greater, else if this
greater,’ until it derives its decision.”

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