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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/03/28
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In article <wyVD4.17218$624.1463963@news.flash.net>,
  "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> There are acceptable reasons for not caring about readability;
e.g.
> intentionally complex (or arbitrary) code sequences designed
to try to break
> a compiler, or test its optimizations. Certain throw-away code
(e.g. solely
> to learn a new language) would be another example. My guess
was the
> latter...


The compiler breaking code is of course a legitimate example.

I am not nearly as sure about your second example. Part of
learning a new language is precisely learning to write readable
code in the style of that language. Indeed, for a good
programmer it should be almost impossible to operate in
any other mode than wanting to write well commented clear
code :-)

Learning just enough of language x to get problem y working is
NOT necessarily very much related to learning language x (for
any x or y).


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