Main menu puzzle, Klaus
Eric Chatonet
eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Sat Feb 18 15:16:37 EST 2006
Hi Judy :-)
I do think too that Ken is making effort.
I just wanted to encourage him and say that there are steps nobody
can't saves on.
Le 18 févr. 06 à 19:43, Judy Perry a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
>
> I do think that Ken IS making effort. Lots of effort. He is doing
> us and
> the company a favor by showing exactly what it is (in this particular
> situation) that absolutely bedevils newcommers who are not
> programmers.
>
> Case statements and pWhich's simply are NOT comprehensible to
> non-programmers!
>
> Perhaps a verbose version (where possible) of such things SHOULD be
> presented alongside the more "elegant" code snippets to aid those
> who are
> new to programming, no?
>
> For instance, every time I see a case statement solution, my brain
> positively has to go into second language mode in which I have to read
> each line like a small child would -- letter by letter, word by word,
> translating the whole way into natural language.
Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet
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