From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Subject: Re: “Usability” (was Re: Map iteration and modification)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 02:54:09 -0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <unafcg$bpv5$7@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: un7nqe$3rs9n$1@dont-email.me
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 20:00:37 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:un64o3$3krch$1@dont-email.me...
>>>
>>>> Usability always trumps performance.
>>>
>>> That's the philosophy of languages like Python, not Ada.
>>
>> Ah, this is why Python is totally unusable? (:-))
>
> I would tend to argue that it is indeed the case that you get dubious
> results when you put usability first. ...
> http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/blog/consequences.html
Without reading that, I would never have understood “usability” to mean
“ease of writing”. I learned from early on in my programming career that
readability was more important than writability. So “using” a language
doesn’t end with writing the code: you then have to test and debug it--
basically lick it into shape--then maintain it afterwards.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-28 13:53 Map iteration and modification DrPi
2023-12-28 13:59 ` DrPi
2023-12-28 16:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-12-28 17:57 ` DrPi
2023-12-29 3:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-12-29 9:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-12-29 15:03 ` G.B.
2023-12-29 16:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-01 19:27 ` G.B.
2024-01-01 20:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-02 16:40 ` G.B.
2024-01-02 20:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-03 3:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2024-01-03 4:05 ` moi
2023-12-30 7:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-12-30 11:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-03 3:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2024-01-03 10:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-04 4:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2024-01-04 11:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-05 2:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2024-01-05 9:26 ` Simon Wright
2024-01-05 11:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-01-06 7:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2024-01-07 15:06 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2024-01-09 4:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2024-01-09 5:56 ` when-clauses (was Re: Map iteration and modification) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-01-09 9:43 ` Map iteration and modification Jeffrey R.Carter
2024-04-17 10:12 ` Cóilín Nioclás Pól Glostéir
2024-01-06 2:54 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro [this message]
2024-01-06 7:03 ` "Usability" (was Re: Map iteration and modification) Randy Brukardt
2024-01-06 8:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2024-01-06 23:41 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-01-07 1:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2024-01-09 15:19 ` Bill Findlay
2024-01-09 20:30 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2023-12-29 3:08 ` Map iteration and modification Randy Brukardt
2023-12-29 13:53 ` DrPi
2023-12-30 6:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-12-31 13:56 ` DrPi
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