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Comment by unsupp0rted

17 hours ago

If you can test well enough, both manually and automated, then it's okay if there's a bunch of stupid mistakes in the code, as long as the end result works right. Not unlike biology.

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LPisGood  15 hours ago

If you view creating programs like an optimization problem over the feasible region of valid programs, this is not unreasonable.

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