Re: Programming language vote - results

[firewind <firewind@metroid.dyn.ml.org>]

Mike Smith <kld_msmith@earthlink.nospam.net> wrote:
> firewind <firewind@metroid.dyn.ml.org> wrote in article
> <64qsf0$ccc@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com>...
> > I find myself using a construct like this a lot recently (snipped directly
> > from code I'm working on right now):
> > 
> > if(!to && !(to = malloc(sizeof *to)))) return(NULL);
> > 
> > For 'verbose' code this would be written:
> > 
> > if(!to) {
> > 	if(!to = malloc(sizeof *to)) {
> > 		return(NULL);
> > 	}
> > }
> > 

> Yeah, and what's wrong with that?  

Nothing, obviously.

> Looks good to me - better than the
> logical expression.  

This is purely your opinion. Either are correct, and either can be understood
with little or no effort.

(BTW, it's -still- a logical expression; it's just two now.)

> And in the first case, 

> if (!call_this) call_that(); 

> is also the better form.  

Incorrect. It is the form that conforms more to your way of thinking.

> A good programmer writes code that even
> less-skilled programmers can easily read and maintain.  

I hope even less-skilled programmers can understand the boolean operators.

> Unless, of course,
> the code you write will never need to be maintained or updated, in which
> case it is probably of little consequence in the real world.

> > some people's minds work. To insult these people by comparing them to
> > fickle adolescents is simply out of line.

> Okay, how about comparing them to snooty elitist "artists" or "craftsmen"
> that are more interested in form than function?  

Someone more interested in 'form' would write more 'pretty looking' 
constructs, would they not? I am still insulted by your statement. I code
the way I code. My code works. I frankly don't care whether or not you think
my style is 'pretty.' Anything above 'it works' is nothing more than a matter
of opinion. Period.

I find it pretty arrogant for you to think your way is the One True Style
of Coding, and that anyone who dares do differently is a 'snob' or an
'adolescent' or an 'elitist.'

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