Los mejores programadores combinan arquitectura con ingenieria

Entrevista a Paul Graham por O'Reilly Network. Autor del libro Hackers and Painters.

O'Reilly Network.- The C2 Wiki documents an anti-pattern called Architects Don't Code. Is the distinction between architects and engineers useful in the world of software? Returning to your "Hackers and Painters" essay, you said that, at Yahoo:

"Programmers were seen as technicians who translated the visions (if that is the word) of product managers into code."

Or do you perhaps see hackers as architects who discover the software as they hack?

Paul Graham.- In theory you could design software without implementing it, but in practice the best designs are rarely made that way. The best programmers combine architect and engineer in one head.

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