George Orwell on Writing Code

Posted by brslv on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:32AM
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https://borislav.xyz/observations/george-orwell-on-writing-code/

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Re:George Orwell on Writing Code by samizdis on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:25AM (#22736543)

The rules cited come from the essay Politics and the English Language. [i] The style guide of the Economist newspaper is predicated on that essay. [ii]

[i] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...

[ii] A copy of The Economist style guide at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/EconomistBooksTheEconomistStyleG...

- the latest edition is sold via The Economist and by some book sellers.

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Re:George Orwell on Writing Code by brslv on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:04AM (#22737618)

Thanks for [ii]! Didn't know that Economist reused the Orwell's wisdom :)

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