The point of the article, as I see it, is that you should strive for clear and correct writing, from the outset. Claiming that this goal is somehow detrimental to code quality strikes me as absurd.
Fixing syntax errors will do nothing for the logic errors. I find it more plausible that fixing syntax errors coming from sloppy writing will rather cost you time and energy that would be better spent on making the logic right.
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The point of the article, as I see it, is that you should strive for clear and correct writing, from the outset. Claiming that this goal is somehow detrimental to code quality strikes me as absurd.
Fixing syntax errors will do nothing for the logic errors. I find it more plausible that fixing syntax errors coming from sloppy writing will rather cost you time and energy that would be better spent on making the logic right.