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		T-zex on May 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please Learn to Code Cooking is way more simple compared to programming. The recipes are easily understood - a complete opposite to software specs. Cooking does not evolve that fast compared to programming. Everybody loves their grandma's pie. And most important cooking is manufacturing and programming is designing. Regular cooking is trying to reproduce something that was done as close as possible, while programming involves dealing with lots of specifics.

nicholassmith on May 15, 2012 | [–]

Really? I think the molecular gastronomy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy) chefs would disagree with you about that.

The argument still holds, programming can be ridiculously simplistic and so can cooking.

tedunangst on May 15, 2012 | [–]

Please do not compare cooking to heating up food...

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