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The best languages sacrifice readability the least for a given amount of cleverness.
by TimTheTinker 8y ago
The best languages sacrifice readability the least for a given amount of cleverness.
- noja 8y agoExactly. Like BASIC.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoI'd argue that use of clever or advanced patterns in BASIC actually renders the code rather opaque. I.e. compare coroutine usage between BASIC and ruby (if you're even able to get it working in BASIC).
- 4thaccount 8y agoOr the best give you all the flexibility you could ever need and allow you the freedom to write readable and maintainable code or use all the features to write an insanely terse oneliner that can do the job quickly and be thrown out.
- tech2 8y agoExcept, of course, they are rarely thrown out :)
- rkeene2 8y agoYou just described Tcl. :-)