On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Chris Gahan <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have the goals of the code in our head, we write the code, then we don't
> bother to write down the goals. Which means that the next person to come
> along has to read our code and try to intuit what our goals were when
> writing it.


The code *is* the goals. If the code is too far away to immediately intuit
the goals, maybe you're using a language which forces you to be a human
compiler [1]?

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
_______________________________________________
fonc mailing list
[email protected]
http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Reply via email to