From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Subject: Re: 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:55:26 +0200
Date: 2013-08-10T19:55:26+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738qh77n5.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eha1787k.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>> There's a *huge* problem with this: superficial understanding.
>> This problem can lead to extremely bad code adopted as "best
>> practice"/"standard practice".
>
> There is nothing superficial about code. Code *is* programming!
>
> And code can have a "maturing" side just as reading a book:
> re-reading it two years later, and basically reading a new book
> (and not because the book has changed by even a single letter).
>
> Can you honestly say you understood semaphores, pipes, etc., the
> first time you used them? For one, I admit I didn't. But now I do,
> because I wrote that code, and invoked those commands, so many
> times.
>
> And all the while, I *did* something that made my system better,
> more user-friendly, and/or more fun.
>
> I could have read that chapter in "Big Book of Unix IPC" (a couple
> of times), and that would have given me - the same understanding?
> Perhaps, but not for sure (actually, I doubt it). The same
> experience? No. Not typing, not managing a project, not compiling,
> nothing like that at all. All the million "side-effects" to doing
> stuff: self-confidence, creativity, etc.? None. And all the
> improvements to my system - all the .profile, .rc, .emacs,
> .Xresources, all that stuff? (Now I move away from the IPC
> example, but the principle holds.) Nothing. Just a very impressive
> bookshelf!
>
> But, that being said, books are *great*. If they weren't so
> expensive, I would own a lot more of them. References are great,
> as well. But I like mine offline (i.e., on paper).
>
> I don't like Googling - it disturbs my workflow, and hearts my
> eyes (I exclusively work in Emacs, in a Linux VT - see the
> screenshots [1] ...
Forgot the link:
[1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/gnus/index.html
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2013-08-09 16:50 4 beginner's questions on the PL Ada Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 17:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 17:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 17:46 ` Alan Jump
2013-08-09 18:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 19:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-09 21:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 22:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-09 22:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 0:39 ` Anh Vo
2013-08-10 1:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 6:16 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-10 12:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 17:12 ` Mike H
2013-08-10 17:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 19:50 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-10 22:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 7:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-11 12:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 21:12 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-11 21:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-12 17:39 ` Anh Vo
2013-08-12 18:15 ` Anh Vo
2013-08-12 19:57 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-12 20:13 ` Anh Vo
2013-08-10 0:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-12 19:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-09 22:08 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 22:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 22:36 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 22:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 23:48 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 23:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-09 23:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 0:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-10 0:51 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 22:47 ` Alan Jump
2013-08-09 23:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 23:43 ` Alan Jump
2013-08-10 0:19 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-10 0:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-10 0:48 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 23:40 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 23:25 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-09 18:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-09 18:51 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 19:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-09 18:35 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-09 23:21 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-09 23:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 2:45 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-10 3:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 14:57 ` Shark8
2013-08-10 17:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 17:55 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-08-10 23:15 ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-11 12:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-12 18:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-11 0:34 ` Shark8
2013-08-11 12:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 13:24 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-08-11 13:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-11 15:15 ` Mike H
2013-08-12 17:56 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-10 6:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-12 17:17 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-08-12 17:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-10 12:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 12:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-10 12:52 ` Emanuel Berg
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