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I learned to program on programmable calculators. I don't think I have ever reached the ratio of documentation to code that I've had back then. Necessity is th
by praptak 5y ago
I learned to program on programmable calculators. I don't think I have ever reached the ratio of documentation to code that I've had back then.
Necessity is the mother of documentation.
- taneq 5y agoPretty hard to write self documenting code when all you have are single letter variables and the language doesn’t support comments.
- praptak 5y agoLetter variables? Luxury! One of the calculator had ops like STO, RCL, PAU, GTO, GSB and some numbered "cells", where you could store the result of the calculation. The other had ops like '74' which were coordinates of the key which activated the given function. Getting the full screen of the ZX Spectrum surely spoiled me :)
- avmich 5y agoYeah, that's why math doesn't have self-documenting theorems, right?
- taneq 5y agoDoes maths have self-documenting theorems? O.o
- eurasiantiger 5y agoGeometrical proofs could be construed as such, even with some propositional logic given that someone comes up with a solid, universal way of expressing it (cf. The Golden Record)
- code_duck 5y agoI’d probably have a parallel file with comments.