This paragraph caught my eye: "One of the early experiences that led me to focus on communication was discovering Knuth's Literate Programming: a progam should read like a book. It should have plot, rhythm, and delightful little turns of phrase. When Ward Cunningham and I first read about literate programs, we decided to try it. We sat down with one of the cleanest pieces of code in the Smalltalk image, the ScrollController, and tried to make it into a story. Hours later we had completely rewritten the code on our way to a reasonable paper. Every time a bit of logic was a little hard to explain, it was easier to rewrite the code than explain why the code was hard to understand. The demands of communication changed our perspective on coding."
>From Kent Beck. "A Theory of Programming". Dr. Dobb's Journal, November 2007 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/b9b95e89-ed14-4cc3-ad33-83c43da984cen%40googlegroups.com.
