Wolfgang Keller wrote:
In fact, thinking of it, a really good language should imho *require*
verbosity (how about a *minimum* length - or maybe even a
dictionary-based sanity check - for identifiers?), since that already
keeps all those lazy morons away who think that "shortcuts are cool".
No, that wouldn't be a really good language, that
would be a language designed by someone with a
very shallow understanding of what makes programs
understandable.
A piece of code such as
for (i = 0; i < numThings; i++)
total[i] += things[i];
is NOT improved by rewriting it as
for (theLoopIndex = 0; theLoopIndex < numThings; theLoopIndex++)
total[theLoopIndex] += things[theLoopIndex];
Quite the reverse, IMO.
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