begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:39:20PM -0600: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Maybe this is just a naive thought but I'd like to have the most > > terse/elegant/readable language and then have the most powerfully built > > Ok, I've seen this pop up several times in this discussion and can't > bite my tongue anymore. Terse != readable. I find that programs that > try to be as terse as possible, even when they still use good variable > names, frequently are unmaintainable. I find myself adding code to > make it readable far more frequently than taking it away.
Readability is a balancing act, rather than a slider. In terms of readability, it is possible to be too terse, or too verbose. Pushing for an extreme one way or the other doesn't help. -- I am emphatically in agreement Don't need no shoes of cement. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
