Re: Compiler Books? Parsers?

Jeff Kenton <Jeffrey.Kenton@comcast.net>
9 Jan 2004 23:35:59 -0500

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From: Jeff Kenton <Jeffrey.Kenton@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Jan 2004 23:35:59 -0500
Organization: Comcast Online
References: 03-10-113 03-10-145 03-11-010 03-11-083 03-12-017 03-12-116 03-12-125 03-12-132 04-01-025
Keywords: practice
Posted-Date: 09 Jan 2004 23:35:59 EST

Mark Sayers wrote:
> My personal believe if that too great a percentage of time is spend
> coding and not enough on the design of the software to begin with to
> produce easily maintainable code that is readable.


I have to add something on the question of readablility. I have
worked at a place where the deliberate policy was to eliminate most
comments and white space, for the purpose of being able to see more
code on a single screenful. The president went so far as to strip
comments from existing code. And then wondered why new hires took so
long to learn the internals.


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