From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT?] Coding Style
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:37:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6D42D5.ED8552D0@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010122130852.00b92a80@mail.fluent-access.com>
Stephen Satchell wrote:
[lots of good advice deleted]
> One goal of language designers is to REMOVE the need for comments. With a
> good fourth-generation or fifth-generation language, the need for comments
> diminishes to a detailed description of the data sets and any highly
> unusual operations or transforms on the data.
This is but a dream. You can't "design out" the need for comments by
approaching natural language. Try reading a law book and realize that
natural language too may be twisted to the extent that it needs
extensive comments. The same goes for any computer language powerful
enough to do useful work.
Helge Hafting
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-22 21:09 [OT?] Coding Style Stephen Satchell
2001-01-22 16:42 ` Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-22 23:56 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-23 0:01 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-23 6:37 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-23 8:37 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2001-01-23 18:58 ` Alan Olsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-23 22:22 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-23 16:47 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-24 0:07 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-23 15:41 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-23 15:58 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-23 16:00 ` Mike Harrold
2001-01-23 16:14 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-01-23 18:05 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-01-23 18:41 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2001-01-23 18:44 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-01-23 18:53 ` James Kelly
2001-01-23 16:32 ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-24 1:14 ` Steve Underwood
2001-01-25 13:33 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-24 5:42 ` Brent Rowland
2001-01-24 5:50 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-25 13:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-25 19:30 ` Harald Arnesen
2001-01-26 0:20 ` James Stevenson
2001-01-23 17:42 ` John Kodis
2001-01-25 13:38 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-22 17:53 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-22 16:04 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-22 16:19 ` Mike Harrold
2001-01-22 16:22 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-22 18:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-22 23:20 ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-01-23 0:54 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-23 12:28 ` Steve Underwood
2001-01-23 16:17 ` Nicolas Noble
2001-01-23 21:16 ` David Benfell
2001-01-23 12:52 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-23 18:10 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-22 17:43 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-20 15:32 Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-20 16:19 ` [OT?] " profmakx.fmp
2001-01-21 5:10 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-01-21 5:50 ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-01-21 5:58 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-21 7:07 ` Josh Myer
2001-01-21 7:20 ` Alan Olsen
2001-01-21 22:40 ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-22 0:23 ` Admin Mailing Lists
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