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No, I am not willfully abusing but thank you anyways. Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. Literate pro
by CalChris 10y ago
No, I am not willfully abusing but thank you anyways.
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Literate programming is not there to entertain you. It's there to be understood. Beware the programmer who disdains comprehension of their programs.
Programs are pieces of engineering. As such they are meant to be used. Beware the programmer who admires their programming too much. If they have elegantly solved a problem that will come out in their solution's use and not in its literate form.
- HeyLaughingBoy 10y ago...right up until the time that someone else has to change it.
- phlakaton 10y agoYes, programs are there to be used. Literate programming as a technique, however, is designed to facilitate those programs being understood. I'm not sure how you conclude that this has anything to do with programmers "admiring their programming."