On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Any language can be made readable or unreadable. Personally, I think > that any program is readable if it has complete, up to date embedded > comments explaining what is happening and meaningful variable names, > even if the actual code looks like ancient Greek, scrambled.
Agreed. > About this particular project: let's just do it in whatever language > the majority of the volunteers is ALREADY proficient with, not with the one > which the majority of the list thinks better for any reason. > Otherwise it will never get done. Yup > Personally, I am very good with Perl and know (almost) nothing of > Python, just because it happened so. I will help even if the thing is > made in Python, it will be a good occasion to learn it, but of course > will be less helpful in debugging. ditto (modified to proficient rather than very good...) > So, what language do the volunteers know better? Perl. Michael -- Dr Michael A. Maibaum - (W)+1 (415) 561 1682 - (H)+1 (415) 626 6733 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.gene-hacker.net/>
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