From: David Steuber
Subject: Re: Article about Paul Graham on slashdot today
Date:
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I've always used the editor as a doodle pad for my programming. The
design, such as it may be, only ever exists in my head. I also eschew
UML whenever I can.
It is quite refreshing to know that I am not alone in this.
I also tend to be a top down programmer. I know what I want in
advance and bust up dwim-x into the necessary steps. Then I bounce
from the bottom back up in the direction of the top.
Does that make any sense? Maybe I am more of a hack than a hacker.
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(describe 'describe)
I like this one:
"Static typing would be a fine idea if people actually did write
programs the way they taught me to in college. But that's not how
any of the hackers I know write programs. We need a language that
lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you
have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make
polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler."
<http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html>
Edi.
Graham emphasizes source code readability. But certain features of his Lisp
dialect Arc are apparently designed to be easier to write than read.
Paolo
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Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>