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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/25
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robin said

"That too.  If it's not easy to write, it's not going
to be easy to maintain either."

Surprising that anyone could actually believe this, it just goes to
show that even the most obvious and elementary principles of language
design are not universally understood.

It is of course NOT the case AT ALL that ease of writing and ease
of maintenance are the same thing, or even related. The most elementary
example relates to comments, extensive comments don't make writing easier,
but they certainly help maintenance, and when it comes to the language
itself, various elements of redundancy can help maintenance considerably,
at the clear expense of ease of writing.