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FactChecker reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with
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Thinking about the usefulness of mixing pseudo-code with actual code somehow takes me back to the university in the 80's where we had... -
The short answer is "no." I don't know what your coding experience is, but unless one is writing relatively small programs, it can be...
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FactChecker reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with
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A similar thing happens to me here at PF. After a couple of years, I get a reply notification to a watched thread, and so read back up... -
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I only write very low-level and compact code, so I leave myself notes addressed like "We need to ...", because I will have forgotten...
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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...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.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...
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My experience has been that the algorithm is usually not the main question when looking at code. I'm agreeing with @Filip Larsen that...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.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...
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FactChecker reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with Like.
I am not sure if you say this because you think pseudo-code somehow magically can elucidate details that code in a modern language...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.Good question. Pseudocode can be as obscure as the real code, so that is not the right way to describe good documentation. There are...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.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...
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FactChecker reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages with
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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... -
FactChecker reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages with Like.
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...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.Good question. OOP helps to facilitate memory management. For the time being, you can ignore other features of OOP if you want to. Keep...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.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...