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> If you have to take the time to learn how to read something, it's not easily readable. What? What language can you read without knowing it first?

• smacktoward 14y ago
  If you're used to one C-style language, it's generally not hard to read code written in another. This is not to say that you'll grok it 100% accurately on your first go, but another C-style language will be more readable to you than, say, a Lisp-flavored one would be.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    Of course that "readability" leads to devs writing C in Java, or what have you, and naking subtle mistakes, instead of learning the new language. See Dijkstra's "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science"
  • Evbn 14y ago
    Of course that "readability" leads to devs writing C in Java, or what have you, and naking subtle mistakes, instead of learning the new language. See Dijkstra's "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science"
  • eswangren 14y ago
    ...because, at one point, you learned to read C.