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> trash literature From a business perspective, maybe it should be trash literature. (Edit: I mean in the "It was morning and the sun came up, which made it l
by 13of40 3y ago
> trash literature
From a business perspective, maybe it should be trash literature. (Edit: I mean in the "It was morning and the sun came up, which made it less cold." sense.) When I code, I try to write all of the comments first, then fill in the implementation that matches the comments. It's typically very dry prose, and you get things like "Walk through the collection and pick out all of the orange widgets", but at the end of the day you're not trying to stir emotions with this stuff, you're trying to make the next person have less of a headache understanding it.
- routerl 3y agoClear and concise prose does not "trash literature" make. Vide Hemingway. Code absolutely should be readable and as obvious as possible, but that itself can often be a sign of virtuosity; you've broken down the problem into such simple steps that reading it is easy. To paraphrase Mark Twain, writing a short and clear program often takes much longer than a convoluted one. "Trash literature" is often full of unnecessarily adorned prose.