From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: conditional compilation
Date: 2000/08/02
Date: 2000-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ma4lf$4g8$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccwvhzbnwc.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff (bobduff@world.std.com) wrote:
: I don't like so-called literate programming for the same reason I don't
: like C macros. In order to understand the code, you have to imagine the
: actual output of the macro preprocessor.
Agreed if literate programming was about code, but it is
not. It is about English, about explaining algorithms in
English (or your preferred human language), about not having
to worry about the outcome of the processor because the
processor takes care of that. Ideally, though.
If the language has facilities to express your design the
way you think about design, good. Literate programming
helpers can help with this. I'm exaggerating, but ideally
you would not have to worry about the outcome of
preprocessors, compilers, optimizers, anything.
Of course you should and Knuth, supposedly having coined
the words "literate programming", has written one of the
books about inputs and outcomes, and that you shoul know
how to worry about them.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-31 0:00 conditional compilation Matthew Woodcraft
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ira D. Baxter
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2000-08-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-08-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-03 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-01 0:00 ` William J. Thomas
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-09-19 0:00 Conditional Compilation Kenneth Kueny
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-09-20 0:44 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-19 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Jeff Allen
2000-09-20 0:49 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-20 0:52 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-20 0:47 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-09-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-20 1:33 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <8qauu3$7ei$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2000-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-25 2:45 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-25 0:00 ` peter
[not found] ` <39CA31F2.E160F0D8@res.raytheon.com>
2000-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-02 13:27 ` Andrew Hately
2001-01-02 16:46 ` Robert Dewar
1989-12-12 0:08 conditional compilation Emery
1988-06-13 0:24 Conditional compilation Steinar Haug
1988-06-17 13:53 ` rds
1988-06-22 0:44 ` Jeff Bartlett
1988-06-23 13:01 ` Arny B. Engelson
1988-06-27 18:01 ` Dave Seward
1988-06-29 13:32 ` brucej
1988-06-17 14:48 ` rjs
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