Re: [LAU] No batch processing on Linux?

Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-26 23:16:05 +0200:
> On Sunday 26 September 2010 08:13:32 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-25 13:00:29 +0200:
> > > On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris Cannam wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > > > I guess I am reacting to what I imagine is language
> > > > > preference projected onto absolute judgment on merits of a
> > > > > particular language.
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps you are speaking from years of software development
> > > > > experience.
> > > >
> > > > I have quite a lot of (mostly enjoyable) experience writing Perl over
> > > > the years, including some fairly big programs, and hardly any
> > > > experience with Python (a language I dislike on instinct). But my
> > > > experience with Perl has been that returning to my own projects is
> > > > harder than it should be, and harder than in languages like C and C++.
> > > >
> > > > That is probably due to my own limitations, particularly when it
> > > >
> > > > comes to discipline, but it's empirically true in my case.
> > > >
> > > > The real assumption I made back there was that Python code is any
> > > > easier to return to -- I haven't the experience to judge, really, I'm
> > > > just going on hearsay from friends and acquaintances.
> > >
> > > Python actually forces you to be more disciplined. Which really make
> > > returning to the code easy.
> >
> > Isn't this only about indentation? Indentation might be important for
> > readability, but whether it's forced by the language or not doesn't seem
> > to be such a big deal for me.
>
> Don't underestimate that!
>
> Write some non-trivial code, let it rest for 2 months (where you focus on
> other things) and come back to your code. If you where displined to document a
> lot, python makes it easier for you to come back to your code than other
> languages I know (C, C++, javascript, basic, pascal, fortran, LabView, heck it
> even simplier than pd I think).
>
> With python it seems to be "only" intendation, but this results in clearer
> structures of code and less parenthesis. Which results in a much higher
> readability. Sure, you can write readable code in other languages too. But how
> many people do you know that write readable code (in non-python) when the
> projects deadline is only two weeks away?
>
> And pythons inbuilt documentation-system saves you another three days of that
> deadline...
>
> Have fun,
>
> Arnold

Documentation has nothing to do with indentation, and there probably
are documentation systems for every language. I wonder whether some of
you guys tried literate programing (noweb for example), it should beat
every documentation system, in theory.

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