Re: "=" is equal to ...
Re: "=" is equal to ...
- Subject: Re: "=" is equal to ...
- From: Pat Cannon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:00:40 -0800
On 3/12/03 4:21 PM, Dave Stewart at email@hidden didst forever and
always commit to the digital human communication archive:
I am one of those verbose "junk" writers and make no apologies for it. I do
not share the sentiment of somehow I am being "punished."
...I purposely write code that I try to make as easily
understood by the audience that will be reading it
people that have never
seen code in their life, but *have* to make adjustments to it to meet a
deadline in an unexpected situation. It is verbose and heavily commented.
Ken
Yay for you, Ken!
I am also the only (regular) AppleScripter at my shop. I find the
aforementioned 'verbosity' helpful for the same reason, except so far
the main beneficiary has been myself, saying "What was I thinking?".
It always reminds me of one of my all-time favorite novels, Brain
Wave by Poul Anderson (1954). The Earth passes out of some kind of
electromagnetic damping field and everybody's IQ quadruples
instantly. Shortly thereafter, a guy is cruising between the stars
in a spaceship of his own design when he passes back into the damping
field. He stares in sudden horrified bafflement at the controls
which he can no longer understand at all.
I have this feeling quite regularly while scripting -- "Wow, I was
smarter than me that day."
Pat
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