> besides, in the words of Mark Twain:
>
> One isn't a printer ten years without setting up acres of good
> and bad literature, and learning--unconsciously at first,
> consciously later--to discriminate between the two, within his
> mental limitations; and meantime he is unconsciously acquiring
> what is called a "style."
>
> and the same is, if anything, more true of programming. the fact that
> the words translate to actions makes it all the more apparent which
> techniques are good, and which ones suck.
> the whole open source movement is making huge volumes of code available
> in every language, and on every subject. with a moderate amount of
> reading and tinkering, a programmer can become fluent in what are
> literally the cutting-edge techniques on the market.. and all for free.
This is an excellent point! It is how I learned programming in the
first place, and how I pick up new programming languages whenever someone
dumps a body of existing, strange, (and usually wretched,) code on my lap.
Whenever I can, I work to impose my "style" on that body of code, as if
sections of that body of code were only a hypothetical descriptions. It
usually makes things work more efficiently, while simultaneously teaching
me a new language.
Wish that laws could be compiled and tested so easily! Might make
Congress more productive, or is it anti-productive?
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