Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 19/01/2011 15:20, Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
> I think that you meant a different thing: how well defined is the semantics
> of the language being read. The semantics of the newspaper language is very
> ill-defined, Ada is much better. But this is in no direct relation to
> understanding of written texts in the above sense. Diffuse and
> self-contradictory semantics can be easier to capture than the precise and
> correct one, and conversely. Further, there is no obvious reason why the
> process of reading should be different in both cases. I would say that it
> is pretty same and that the quality of text is a thing quite unrelated to
> its contents.
What I meant is that the sentences in journal are quite predictable, and
if you miss some information, you can trust that the brain will
reconstruct it correctly. Moreover, it is optimized for speed of reading.

Reading a program should be optimized for accuracy of understanding, and
making sure that no misinterpretation can happen. I claim these are
different goals.

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