<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/34bbbe6a-3bd5-4967-b3ac-36975c6858f6/E602F911-3631-4020-87AA-027C17D507AE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/" href="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.amber.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link to Writing code is easy; designing software is hard" rel="bookmark" href="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/">Writing code is easy; designing software is hard</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/"><P>In <A href="http://www.vetta.org/2008/05/scipy-the-embarrassing-way-to-code/">reading an article about SciPy</A>, the author has this gem:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/"><P>The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/"><P>I mean gem quite literally. This, in the end, is the core difficulty that people seem not to grasp about writing <EM>good</EM> software. Writing lots of code is trivial; any monkey, or <ACRONYM title="Integrated Development Environment">IDE</ACRONYM> can do it. The difficulty comes in the concept and more importantly the domain knowledge around the problem. For me, that’s 90% of the problem.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/writing-code-is-easy-designing-software-is-hard/"><P>This is why I say languages don’t matter that much. Knowledge is language-insensitive.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E602F911-3631-4020-87AA-027C17D507AE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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