Intuition, feh ... sort of =)

Your intuition can be educated, or not. A lot of what feels like intuition is definitely affected by your experience. It's a rare person indeed who has something more-or-less innate when it comes to programming (pick your favourite endeavour here). You can develop a good 'eye' for what's going to work and what isn't, and if you work at things long enough, that 'eye' becomes part of your nature. And yes, some people are just better at this sort of thing than others. So, to that extent, intuition is highly useful and ought to be heeded, at least provisionally.

Note though, when it came to justifying your intuition, you had a way of working out why it was right. If you didn't have that, I would have said "intuition, feh. Show me *why* that will work".

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to (arturo) Re: On the peril of discounting intuition by arturo
in thread On the peril of discounting intuition by dws

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