On 5/5/2010 4:50 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
alex23 wrote:
Ed Keith <e_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Knuth wanted the generated source to be unreadable, so people would
not be tempted to edit the generated code.
This is my biggest issue with Knuth's view of literate programming. If
the generated source isn't readable, am I just supposed to trust it?
How can I tell if an error lies in my expression of the algorithm or
in the code generation itself?
Do you think a compiler is required to make its object file conveniently
readable? Do you regularly read the machine code generated by your C
compiler? I admit I've frequently studied compiler output over the
years, but I think I'm very unusual in that respect. I've never
disassembled a python byte code file,
The output from dis.dis() is quite readable, and people (developers and
others) have used it to check on what the compiler is doing.
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