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Re:The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong smal... by cat199 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @02:09AM (#18744873)
> Calling the idea that code should be readable by humans "almost twee" just makes me think that the writer has no idea what they're talking about.

Actually..

no.

He did do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

And it's not just that programming should be in languages rather than machine code, but that the code + comments should read like a coherent document.

In other words, just because you write in a programming language doesn't mean it's literate programming.

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Re:The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong smal... by giornogiovanna on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:53AM (#18745628)
That's not what GP is complaining about - rather, the issue is that the article misrepresents what literate programming is, and makes it sound like nobody writes code for humans to read these days, which is obviously false.
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Re:The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong smal... by hopler on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:38AM (#18745987)
In my decades of programming experience in the commercial sector, I have seen very little readable code. Rush to market and insecure competitive "anyone as smart as me would understand my code" is standard.
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