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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2018-09-26

"The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct." -- Donald Ervin Knuth

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posted by [personal profile] eller at 09:43am on 2018-09-26
Ah, Don Knuth. I wish more programmers would read his books. :D
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posted by [personal profile] mental_mouse at 12:51pm on 2018-09-29
This articulates something that I have had trouble explaining to people: The point isn't just to do a given piece of work, its to do it in such a way that its correctness can be verified. Readability isn't just "overhead", it's part of the function.
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