which is exactly why regular expressions are such a PITA to diagnose.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I Can't understand this fixation with how many characters typed. > > I now quite like the verbose "dot notation" of Livecode - it's now second > nature and it's the last thing I would even bother asking to augment with > "real" dot notation. > > the put <expression> into variable adds very little time to typing and is > so much easier to explain to someone who hasn't been tainted with decades > of the "right way" which was needed when teletypes printed at 10 characters > a second and they had time share systems which were charged on CPU time > used - more data/programs to parse more CPU usage. > > If you actually time yourselves or just do a thought experiment - much > easier especially while eating a bar of chocolate, you will see that you > spend probably less than 10% - probably much less - of your time typing NEW > code. > > When you start a project you are VERY productive - then you have to really > start thinking when you join the bits together, refactor this, delete that > etc etc. > > Most of your time is taken up thinking finding bugs drinking coffee finding > bugs - going to the toilet finding parasites - sorry bugs. > > If you add in the auto completion and snippets that some of you use in the > ATOM editor its probably even less. > > Just do the experiment - you WILL be surprised. > > To save you the hassle these few links have some eye opening statistic > (from a Google employee and from study of a Borland team) > > The last 3 were stuff i've read before but the first one from Quora I just > found because I was looking for real actual metrics - and it does make the > case in my opinion. > The Bill Atkinson link is just to show the pitfalls of LOC as a metric , > which the first link shows as well when someone got his 1000 lines down to > 2 lines! > > https://www.quora.com/How-many-lines-of-code-do-professional-programmers- > write-per-hour > https://blog.codinghorror.com/diseconomies-of-scale-and-lines-of-code/ > http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project= > Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt > https://blog.codinghorror.com/in-defense-of-verbosity/ > > > Kindest Regards Lagi > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
