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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by yannickt on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @03:51PM (#2356121)
Code written by true programming motherfuckers is self-documenting, motherfucker.
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by BrandonM on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @05:16PM (#2356537)
Knuth agrees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Development

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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by snorkel on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @05:15PM (#2356525)
self-documenting code only says what it does but does not say anything about what it's supposed to do or explain why
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by rimantas on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @05:56PM (#2356711)
You may be right about why, but I don't agree on what. Good names for functions/methods can tell a lot. I feel like I am getting spoiled by Objective-C and Cocoa Touch APIs.
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by nadnerb on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:19PM (#2357443)
Self documenting code should be accompanied tests, which further replaces the need for documentation. It also has less chance to rot.
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by rapind on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @04:14PM (#2356248)
or written by unicorns, motherfucker.
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