joel-garry_at_home.com said...
> > formatted, clear and readable code generation. A better tool does not make a
> > better programmer, but I have a hard time believing it makes a worse one.
>
> Daniel, I think you have a valid point, but I think you may be
> mis-evaluating a distinction between learning to code properly with
> good habits, and simple formatting correction.
>
> jg
> --
>
I agree. While I have often wished that those developers who preceded me
had learned to write clear, human understandable code ... well, alas!
... in the real world, I often had to slog thru the muddy waters of
someone's spaghetti code to find where I needed to make a change. Even
COBOL, proclaimed by its developers as a self-documenting language, in
the hands of a haphazard thinker became sheer torture to modify.
If all developers were organized, then there wouldn't be a market for
these beautifiers ... and apps written in object-oriented languages
would be composed of simple, clearly defined modules or classes that
could be folded together into a seamless, full application. And pigs
would fly.
--
/Karsten
DBA > retired > DBA
Received on Wed May 14 2003 - 17:16:34 CDT
