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From: Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Python is readable
Date: 29 Mar 2012 13:44:25 GMT
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In article <mailman.896.1332440814.3037.python-list@python.org>,
Nathan Rice  <nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
>
>I read that article a long time ago, it was bullshit then, it is
>bullshit now.  The only thing he gets right is that the Shannon
>information of a uniquely specified program is proportional to the
>code that would be required to generate it.  Never mind that if a

Thank you for drawing my attention to that article.
It attacks the humbug software architects.
Are you one of them?
I really liked that article.

>program meets a specification, you shouldn't care about any of the
>values used for unspecified parts of the program.  If you care about
>the values, they should be specified.  So, if Joel had said that the
>program was uniquely specified, or that none of the things that
>weren't specified require values in the programming language, he might
>have been kinda, sorta right.  Of course, nobody cares enough to
>specify every last bit of minutiae in a program, and specifications
>change, so it is pretty much impossible to imagine either case ever
>actually occurring.

I wonder if you're not talking about a different article.

<SNIP>

Groetjes Albert

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