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| From | Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: Programming language and IDE design |
| Date | 2013-10-20 14:03 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <13-10-020@comp.compilers> (permalink) |
| References | <13-10-016@comp.compilers> |
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:06:26 +0100, Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk>
wrote:
[snip]
>So my assertion is "Source code should be hard to write": *even if*
>the writing difficulty does not result in any improvement in ease of
>reading! For example: before any programmer checks in a new module or
>program change, they should be forced to write out all the code
>longhand with a quill pen. This apparently pointless extra work
>should give programmer's the opportunity to think about whether there
>might be a shorter way to solve the problem (which might even be
>easier to read and understand).
It is pointless. I would be too concerned with the writing to
look much at the code.
Someone who is not inclined to think more about the problem is
not going to start doing so because you make him write it longhand.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
[He's being ironic, dude. Keypunching often had this salutary
effect. -John]
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Re: Programming language and IDE design "Jonathan Thornburg" <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu> - 2013-11-10 04:41 +0000
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Re: Programming language and IDE design Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-10-20 14:03 -0700
Re: Programming language and IDE design Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-10-21 14:44 -0700
Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-10-22 16:17 -0400
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