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> divided writers into bashers and swoopers...this is bashing -- swoopers tend to free write and edit later

It’s fascinating to see such a similar structure in so many things.

For example, in programming: breadth-first vs depth-first when navigating a tree structure, or in nature: the cycles of the slime mold looking for food.

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Or in programming, the people who first swoop out a more-or-less complete program that's closer to pseudocode than something that's meant to compile, and then fix things until hopefully the program works, versus the bashers who only write mostly correct code.

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