Re: Stylistic note on loops
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Malcolm McLean wrote:
On Oct 31, 9:17?pm, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
? We must write code that is as readable as possible. But
? we may assume that the reader
? ? ? - knows C and
? ? ? - reads every single character of the source code,
? otherwise writing readable code is impossible (because we
? cannot know upfront which specific part of C a specific
? reader will not know or which specific part of our source
? code he will miss to read).
Yesterday I translated a Python routine into C. I've don't know Python -
I've glanced at some source but I've never read a Python primer nor used
a Python compiler/interpreter (I don't even know which). However I was
able to complete the task successfully. It's a combination of knowing
what the function was intended to achieve and the fact that most
programming languages encode similar operations with similar syntax.
Python has been called 'executable pseudocode'. If written cleanly, it is
highly readable, even to those who don't know it.
If written badly, of course, it's as bad as the cleanest bits of perl.
tom
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