From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C"
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:13:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472825594.1543544.713915105.35C5069E@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <053035F6-0766-4478-A8B9-B5A6DF88D1B7@quintile.net>
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 03:10, Steve Simon wrote:
> I find this a very interesting conversation.
>
> my bugbear is languages and tools that help you do the the easy stuff,
> IDEs that suggest arguments for the read() function, syntax
> highlighting that show which text comments etc.
>
> this is not stuff I find hard, it helps me with the easy stuff!
Sure, but help with the easy [and medium - not every function's
signature is as simple as read()] stuff helps you not break your
concentration to go look at documentation if you're not 100% sure you
remember the signature correctly, so you can use your brain more
efficiently for the hard stuff.
I use a Java IDE that will, with a single command, generate a
declaration corresponding to the type of an expression I just assigned
to an undeclared variable. This saves typing [in the easy cases] and it
saves thinking about return types [in the medium cases].
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-02 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 9:17 Norman Wilson
2016-09-01 15:11 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-01 21:47 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-09-02 0:11 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-09-02 7:10 ` Steve Simon
2016-09-02 10:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-02 14:13 ` Random832 [this message]
2016-09-02 21:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-04 17:03 ` scj
2016-09-05 13:07 ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-04 22:24 ` Nemo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-09 2:43 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-08 13:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-09-08 14:22 ` Tony Finch
2016-09-08 19:20 ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-08 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-09 3:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-09-09 6:06 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-09 21:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-09-08 12:35 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-09 17:07 ` scj
2016-08-28 18:21 Dave Horsfall
2016-08-29 0:37 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-08-29 0:42 ` Larry McVoy
2016-08-29 1:54 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-08 1:19 ` Blake McBride
2016-08-29 3:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-08-31 10:02 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-08-31 12:59 ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:32 ` Ron Natalie
2016-08-31 14:37 ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:57 ` Brantley Coile
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