Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code

jfruh writes "Software firm FreeCause made a bit of a splash with a policy that requires all its employees — including marketers, finance, etc. — to write JavaScript code. And not just 'code to learn basics of what JavaScript can do,' but 'write code that will be used in production.' Phil Johnson, a tech writer and editor who himself once coded for a living, thinks this is nuts, a recipe for miserable workers and substandard code."

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Re:Marketing guy's function

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IT professionals usually have an aversion to lying or even stretching the truth via "spin".

Of course programmers never say things like, "this will only take a couple days," only to see the end result a couple weeks later (and not because of changing requirements). Programmers are just a capable of over-promissing as anyone else. Sometimes more-so.