Hi
I've just found a copy of "Psychology of Programming" and I'm currently
reading it. When I read "The Nature of Programming" by Green there was two
things that caught my eye.
The first is the paragraph:
Neat languages actually prevent programmers from doing things that
might be 'dangerous' - which is why Pascal makes it har to get at
individual registers in the machine. Scruffies regard that as a
paternalistic, even authoritarian, attitude, and programmers in
scruffy languages are expected to look after themselves.
I agree on this, or at least this is my experience on how it *used* to be.
But I have the impression that attitude that this has changed, or it could be
that my environment has changed. I'm working as a teacher at a Computer
Science department and the background/attitude of our students has changed a
lot the last 10 years.
What are other peoples impressions?
The second thing was:
Some people enjoy writing cryptic code, while others enjoy writing
self-evident code.
Once again I agree, but I also think this have changed (or to be more correct
I don't think most of our students would, intentionally, be able to write
cryptic code).
What are your impressions of this, has the attitude changed?
jem
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Jan Erik Mostr�m www.mostrom.pp.se
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