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Article #2196Re: Bad Style Contest - We Have a Winner!
From: Andrew Snyder
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 00:30
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 00:30
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raffael@tiac.net (Raffael Cavallaro) wrote:
>Chris:
>I agree with you that "an experienced C programmer *should* value
>legibility over 'cleverness,' but many programmers enjoy cleverness for
>it's own sake.
>It's sad to say, (but ture), that if novelists wrote software, there would
>be no "software crisis," since all code would be elegantly self
>documenting. Software geeks *like* unecessary complexity -- it makes them
>feel intelligent.
>raf
--snip
I think you'll find if novelists wrote programs, you have something
that looked more like cobal than C. Maybe if we got the people who
write "Clif Notes" to become programmers...
Andrew Snyder
a1s@ix.netcom.com
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