From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:25:24 +0100
Date: 2011-01-19T16:25:29+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <186uch3jonfkf$.1sslu8qz9tvzj$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ih6trb$k01$1@news.eternal-september.org
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:52:14 +0100, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 19/01/2011 15:20, Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
>> I think that you meant a different thing: how well defined is the semantics
>> of the language being read. The semantics of the newspaper language is very
>> ill-defined, Ada is much better. But this is in no direct relation to
>> understanding of written texts in the above sense. Diffuse and
>> self-contradictory semantics can be easier to capture than the precise and
>> correct one, and conversely. Further, there is no obvious reason why the
>> process of reading should be different in both cases. I would say that it
>> is pretty same and that the quality of text is a thing quite unrelated to
>> its contents.
> What I meant is that the sentences in journal are quite predictable, and
> if you miss some information, you can trust that the brain will
> reconstruct it correctly. Moreover, it is optimized for speed of reading.
>
> Reading a program should be optimized for accuracy of understanding, and
> making sure that no misinterpretation can happen. I claim these are
> different goals.
Why? In both cases the text is to convey something to be reconstructed in
the most easy and quick way. Whether it be a picture of a flood or
earthquake happened somewhere or a variable assigned to a certain value is
no matter.
("Accuracy of understanding" depends on the contents. I would not say that
"flood in X, Y missing, Z homeless" is less or more accurate than "X := 1;"
Both are abstractions on some physical world events, which could be
infinitely more precise than their descriptions.)
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2011-01-17 5:07 AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 5:18 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 4:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 6:43 ` Shark8
2011-01-17 10:22 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 10:23 ` pascal.obry
2011-01-17 10:49 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-17 10:54 ` pascal.obry
2011-01-18 19:07 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-18 19:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 20:44 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-18 21:03 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 22:16 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 6:58 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-19 9:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 20:16 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-19 22:42 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-01-19 22:21 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-20 1:52 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 20:23 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-18 21:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-18 22:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-19 0:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-19 1:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 7:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 8:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 10:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-19 11:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 13:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-19 21:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 23:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-16 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-16 20:13 ` Shark8
2011-03-16 21:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-16 22:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-19 1:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-16 19:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 22:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 22:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-25 20:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 13:47 ` Bill Findlay
2011-01-17 14:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 21:12 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-18 8:03 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-18 0:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 1:40 ` Bill Findlay
2011-01-19 11:12 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 6:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 6:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 8:04 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 9:11 ` pascal.obry
2011-01-19 11:17 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-19 11:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 8:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-18 8:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-18 14:20 ` sjw
2011-01-18 15:41 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 0:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 1:43 ` Bill Findlay
2011-01-18 6:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 7:02 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-18 7:14 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-18 7:26 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 12:42 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-01-18 21:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 22:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-18 22:35 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 23:37 ` tmoran
2011-01-20 2:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-18 8:06 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 8:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-18 15:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 22:03 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 9:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 13:31 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 1:53 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-19 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 9:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 10:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 12:16 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-24 5:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-24 8:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 13:39 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 14:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 14:52 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 15:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-01-19 21:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 22:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 21:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:17 ` Robert Matthews
2011-01-21 19:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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2011-01-19 11:21 ` Stephen Leake
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