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>> The problem is, as he says, that the programmer already knows everything that needs to be written.

When I was working as a programmer, most of the time we didn't know exatcly what needed to be written. Programming requires so much focus because of the myriad of ways that you can implement a high level concept, and you have to take into considaration all kinds of things like performance, extensibility, portability, ease of maintenance, and so on.



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