Re: [DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:56:04 -0500 Apollia wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Weikusat < > rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > > > Apollia writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > I think if I ever did code much in C, my code would end

Re: [DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-27 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Steve Litt writes: > Apollia wrote: >>> wrote: [...] I often like to use long, descriptive names for functions and variables, no matter what language I'm using, even Bash. [...] >>> using an

Re: [DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Apollia writes: > Rainer Weikusat wrote: > >> Apollia writes: [...] >>> I often like to use long, descriptive names for functions and >>> variables, [...] >> combined-list-of-files-in-all-source-folders >> >>

Re: [DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-25 Thread Apollia
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Weikusat < rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Apollia writes: > > [...] > > > I think if I ever did code much in C, my code would end up looking very > > unusual and unconventional to many people, because I often like to use > >

Re: [DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-24 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Apollia writes: [...] > I think if I ever did code much in C, my code would end up looking very > unusual and unconventional to many people, because I often like to use > long, descriptive names for functions and variables, no matter what > language I'm using, even Bash.

[DNG] Readable code; making code more easily writable; Emacs, multifiles-apmod; VUE; Code Bubbles; Lisp; Inform 7; HyperCard and HyperTalk - was Re: "Common knowledge?"-question

2016-01-23 Thread Apollia
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Rainer Weikusat < rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Can the effect of the following C function > > static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) > { > char *buf, *p; > unsigned name_len, what_len, total; > > name_len =