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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in
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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.)

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de