in reply to Re: Re: Re: Ways of commenting subroutines
in thread Ways of commenting subroutines
It is my belief that while trying to remove lines is a fun game, anyone who thinks that it is the goal of someone who would be a good programmer is missing the point. Being able to write tight code is a result, not a goal.
The foundation of computer programming is the question, "How do I get this thing to be doing whatever I want?" That means getting it to work now. Having it work tomorrow for 2 things, neither quite what you started with and both harder tasks.
Now you claim that coming across problems that require ugly logic is a mark of a hacker. I disagree. I think that a far better mark is finding nicer ways to think about problems than the obvious (bad) approaches...
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Re: Re (tilly) 4: Ways of commenting subroutines
by Shadowfax (Sexton) on Mar 30, 2001 at 20:42 UTC | |
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 30, 2001 at 21:50 UTC | |
by MeowChow (Vicar) on Mar 31, 2001 at 00:22 UTC |