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jedishrfu replied to the thread When should a beginner programmer learn vims/emacs?.Your posts here are like those from the movie Little Buddha, where Jessie, a young boy and the possible reincarnation of a Tibetan... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread When should a beginner programmer learn vims/emacs?.A contractor once came to our site to customize a software product we bought. He opened a terminal session and worked quite well using...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.Things discussed in your courses don't always reflect the reality of professional programmers and the stress they are under to meet...
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jedishrfu reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with
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If the comments are sufficently succinct and well thought out, they will need updating less, if ever. (A function will generally not... -
This isn't a point just against pseudocode; it's a general point against comments in the code that don't get updated when a bug is found...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.Another point against pseudo code is updates. Often programmers fix a defect and comment about what was wrong and how they fixed it...
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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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jedishrfu reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with Like.
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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I've found that when I'm documenting my code, one of the main people I'm writing the documentation for is me. So that when I come back...
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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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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 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... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread B Looking for a list of astronomy collaborations.This is a Wikipedia page of astronomy acronyms listing HESS, DESI, GAIA, but not IceCube, ACT, or GRAND. However, IceCube is also...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread RIP Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025).It's sad to learn of another great scientist passing the torch. The Big Bang theorists have won out over Hoyle's and Narlikar's steady...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00092-4 (2021) In conversation with Prof...
