Re: static hashtable with conent?

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:08:20 -0500
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Stefan Ram wrote:

Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> writes:

This really comes down to a model of programming as writing
that must communicate its meaning to two very different
audiences. One audience is the compiler, and other programming
tools. The other audience is all programmers who will ever read
the code, my future self included.


  Even programmers are not all alike.

  What is ?readable? to one, depends on his background.

  When one comes to Java and the only language one has ever used
  before was Haskell, one will deem other coding constructions
  as ?simple? or ?obvious? than someone who only has been
  programming in Pascal before. When learning Java, as a first
  language, people with a background in mathematics will
  consider other notations readable than English majors.

      ?I've found that some of the best developers of all are
      English majors. They'll often graduate with no programming
      experience at all, and certainly without a clue about the
      difference between DRAM and EPROM.

      But they can write. That's the art of conveying
      information concisely and clearly. Software development
      and writing are both the art of knowing what you're going
      to do, and then lucidly expressing your ideas.?

http://praisecurseandrecurse.blogspot.com/2007/03/english-majors-as-programmers.html


It might not be unreasonable to expect professional practitioners of
programming with a particular language such as Java to be able to read the
constructs of that language. Even "advanced" constructs with lots of
parentheses or whatever.

If you can't stand the heat, don't be a chef.

--
Lew

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