Re:The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate
by edw519 on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:34PM
(#648303)
OP overlooks one critical detail:
When you write code, you are not only writing to the computer, you are writing to other programmers.
Once your code is compiled, the computer doesn't care what you said in your source code. It's only looking at the object code that the compiler created. (I omit the obvious case of interpreted code.)
But poor saps like me who have to maintain your source code are stuck figuring out what you meant.
OP has it backward...
"Good Source Code" = "Good Communication to the next Programmer"
When you write code, you are not only writing to the computer, you are writing to other programmers.
Once your code is compiled, the computer doesn't care what you said in your source code. It's only looking at the object code that the compiler created. (I omit the obvious case of interpreted code.)
But poor saps like me who have to maintain your source code are stuck figuring out what you meant.
OP has it backward...
"Good Source Code" = "Good Communication to the next Programmer"