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@FactChecker and @Filip Larsen well I have an idea, for every 1000 lines of code in whatever you are writing, you will force whoever...

I have had occasions where I was looking at someone's old code, trying to figure it out so that I could modify it, drawing all sorts of...

My experience has been that the algorithm is usually not the main question when looking at code. I'm agreeing with @Filip Larsen that...

An aside: I always considered it to be a red flag if a programmer said that he wrote "self-documenting code" that didn't need comments...

I am not sure if you say this because you think pseudo-code somehow magically can elucidate details that code in a modern language...

Good question. Pseudocode can be as obscure as the real code, so that is not the right way to describe good documentation. There are...

I can't answer that question. I don't know enough about Python. If I were to guess, I would guess that it makes memory errors less...

Not to muddy the waters here but have you looked at Google’s golang programming language? https://go.dev/ It’s C for the internet age...

While the abstract concept of pointing to or referencing data (as opposed to work directly with the "value" of the data) is similar in C...

Good question. OOP helps to facilitate memory management. For the time being, you can ignore other features of OOP if you want to. Keep...

You could use pointers in C++ the same way as in C, but that would miss out on some very important advantages of C++ and OOP. Suppose...

No. While it appears that C/C++ is like that, you can't just compile and run when switching from a Unix system to a Windows system...

The series of books by Donald Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming" were not "had to learn", but were considered standard classics to...

I think he means code and indentation via spaces or tabs.

It's not about learning and writing in multiple languages. It's about needing a script written by someone else in another language, like...