Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-26 23:16:05 +0200: > On Sunday 26 September 2010 08:13:32 Philipp Ãberbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-25 13:00:29 +0200: > > > On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris Cannam wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > 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. > > 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 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
