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>>instead of thinking deeply about it.

Around a decade back, I was doing lots of work on 8-bit microcontrollers, and a fairly old programmer taught me how it was done. And I learned a lot from the approach.

Honestly speaking I had to do lots of paper work, and lots of incremental thinking on paper, testing the ideas along the way.

I'm guessing if you didn't have the print statement or a web page as an output, this is just how you work anyway.

The code did come insanely efficient and bug free. Its not for web dev, but there are its use cases.



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