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Programs must be written for people to read (self.quotes)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MarvinTheBot to c/quotes

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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
--Harold Abelson

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[–] Lmaydev 3 points 1 year ago

Source code is for people. Let the compiler worry about how the machine deals with it.

[–] ExperimentalGuy 3 points 1 year ago

I agree with this to a certain extent, but it depends on the intention of the programmer. Sometimes if performance is what's needed, it can't be all that readable.

[–] ICastFist 1 points 1 year ago

Try Pascal. It's verbose as fuck, but it doesn't take long to understand what's going on from reading the code. Ruby seems to be very readable as well.

More importantly, though, is leaving useful comments everywhere.