[Sussex] Code-writing methods

Nic James Ferrier nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk
Thu Nov 16 17:09:32 UTC 2006


"Neil Hart" <neil.m.hart at googlemail.com> writes:

> Any non-programmer, or someone not familiar with the language syntax
> will immediately see what is going on in the code.  The penalty for
> such an approach is unusually long variable names and lots of
> #defines, but in my view, this is not a big price to pay.

#defines??? so 1980s. We have const's now nearlly everywhere.


Sherioushly, I believe this is the best advice. Comments are actually
harder to write than code.

I reiterate: code *is* communication.


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