Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)

Re:Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (wit... by unwind on Sunday February 27, 2011 @07:41AM (#2267737)

Meh. I would disagree; It's very subjective.

Sure it might look very verbose on first sight, but most of the seemingly excessive text is just there since it's C.

You get used to it, and the GTK+-family API:s are generally very well-designed, very orthogonal and predictable. The verbiage "falls away" from your sight after a while, and you just do what you want done.

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Re:Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (wit... by zem on Sunday February 27, 2011 @09:39AM (#2267887)

i think he meant it in the context of the long function names really making a difference when you have to tap each character out in morse code with your knee.

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Re:Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (wit... by unwind on Thursday March 03, 2011 @06:24AM (#2283600)

Ah, good point of course. For that reason, I really hope he used some kind of completion in the IDE/editor.

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Re:Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (wit... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday February 27, 2011 @04:20PM (#2268999)

>"long function names really making a difference when you have to tap each character out in morse code with your knee"

I wonder if he did or if he shorthanded them and used find+replace?

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