John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I didn't say that I programmed in C on this machine, only that I learned > to program. The habit of being very stingy with memory use carries on.
Nowadays when I code I sometimes stumble into situations like:
"Hmm... This data will take over 100 megabytes of memory... Should
I worry? ... Nah. That's nothing."
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- Warp
From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: code readability
Date: 30 Jun 2008 09:20:27
Message: <4868dd9b$1@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:
> I'd like to see the specification that gave rise to that snipped of > code. ;)
Umm. Write a contrived example showing that compact isn't always readable?
Mike Raiford wrote:
> andrel wrote:>> I'd like to see the specification that gave rise to that snipped of >> code. ;)> > Umm. Write a contrived example showing that compact isn't always readable?
No that is more an assignment. A specification is where you specify what
the possible inputs are and what relations exist between input and
output...umm, ok, I know you were just kidding ;)