Dependence on Programming Experts

Dan Shafer revolutionary.dan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 00:46:38 EDT 2006


Completely disagree. Verbose tends to be far more readable by more people
with less detailed knowledge of the language and system.

put x + 1 into x
increment x
add 1 to x

are all more readable than the more succinct

x++

just for example.

On 7/11/06, Troy Rollins <troy_lists at rpsystems.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
> > I guess
> > I'd grudgingly -- VERY darned grudgingly -- look the other way. But
> > I'd hold
> > my nose at the same time.
>
>
> verbose = arcane
>
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