Norvig, Atwood, and Comments

Steve McConnell on Comments
Jeff Atwood recently wrote an article on comments in source code. He discusses a few different approaches to commenting a Newton’s method square root function, and describes the pros and cons. His reasoning was (unsurprisingly) influenced by Steve McConnell.
Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, [...]

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Happy Fourth of July! Holiday Quote Edition

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]

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Testing Your Language Snobbiness

What if somebody showed you their programming language helped them program faster?
Would you switch? Would you try it?
What if somebody showed you their human language helped them think faster?
Would you switch? Would you try it?
Why do you ask?
I was in Germany for the past few weeks, and saw something notable: For any sufficiently long German [...]

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