27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
7:51 p.m.
Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-26 23:16:05 +0200:
On Sunday 26 September 2010 08:13:32 Philipp
Überbacher wrote:
Documentation has nothing to do with indentation, and there probably
are documentation systems for every language. I wonder whether some of
you guys tried literate programing (noweb for example), it should beat
every documentation system, in theory.
Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of
2010-09-25 13:00:29 +0200:
Don't underestimate that!
Write some non-trivial code, let it rest for 2 months (where you focus on
other things) and come back to your code. If you where displined to document a
lot, python makes it easier for you to come back to your code than other
languages I know (C, C++, javascript, basic, pascal, fortran, LabView, heck it
even simplier than pd I think).
With python it seems to be "only" intendation, but this results in clearer
structures of code and less parenthesis. Which results in a much higher
readability. Sure, you can write readable code in other languages too. But how
many people do you know that write readable code (in non-python) when the
projects deadline is only two weeks away?
And pythons inbuilt documentation-system saves you another three days of that
deadline...
Have fun,
Arnold On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris
Cannam wrote:
Isn't this only about indentation? Indentation might be important for
readability, but whether it's forced by the language or not doesn't seem
to be such a big deal for me. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth
<joelz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> I guess I am reacting to what I imagine is language
> preference projected onto absolute judgment on merits of a
> particular language.
>
> Perhaps you are speaking from years of software development
> experience.
I have quite a lot of (mostly enjoyable) experience writing Perl over
the years, including some fairly big programs, and hardly any
experience with Python (a language I dislike on instinct). But my
experience with Perl has been that returning to my own projects is
harder than it should be, and harder than in languages like C and C++.
That is probably due to my own limitations, particularly when it
comes to discipline, but it's empirically true in my case.
The real assumption I made back there was that Python code is any
easier to return to -- I haven't the experience to judge, really, I'm
just going on hearsay from friends and acquaintances.
Python actually forces you to be more disciplined. Which really make
returning to the code easy.