On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:27:13PM -0800, SJS wrote:
Indeed. And that's not the expectation. Day-to-day, the problem with IAS
is that I can't comfortably read it. The ability to comfortably and
unambiguously READ code is important to me.
Perhaps that is just because you're not used to it? It is a different way
of visualizing things, but humans seem pretty good at learning.
What's amusing is that when I do read python or IAS psuedocode in a book
(or printed out), I annotate it with vertical lines from the initial
keyword to the closing block. That is,
while expression1 while expression1
if expression2 | if expression2
do something ===> | | do something
else | else
do something else | |__do something else
|_____
I find the code on the right significantly more difficult to read. The
lines are just noise that make the code harder to find.
I guess one question is: are these differences between us "hardwired" or
are they learned.
I guess I don't understand what is so important about the "end" part of the
block. I've always thought of 'end' or '}' as noise that I needed to put
in to keep the compiler happy. It never helped _me_ to understand the
code. That's what the indentation was for. I can see vertical alignment
fairly easily. I can't tell matching braces worth beans.
Dave
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