Comments are "reached for rarely and last". Whatever shortcomings comments have pale in comparison to being faced with and trying to figure out undocumented or too sparsely commented code, which, in my long experience,…
A number of programming languages allow an arbitrary range of indices for an array, including Ada, Fortran 77, and Pascal. See the "Specifiable Base Index" column in this table at Wikipedia:…
I was a long-time Tcl user and loved it. [incr Tcl], incidentally, is not a play on "+=1", but "++"; i.e., [incr Tcl] is to Tcl as C++ is to C. Speaking of event loops, before Tcl had its own event loop, I wrote a…
I read a couple of papers on the backlash (even by expert economists) against the heavy emphasis on mathematics in economics, which, IIRC from the papers, began back in the 1940s. Basically, economists work hard…
UCSD Pascal compiled to p-code. Other Pascals compiled to native code. The Wikipedia entry for Turbo Pascal indeed mentions that the TP-generated executables were extremely fast, which was a revelation to UCSD users.
>> Still fun for me, after ~15 years of coding, 5 of them professionally. Lots of us did coding as a hobby for 10 years before gettting out into the professional world. With 5 years under your belt, you're still…
Comments are "reached for rarely and last". Whatever shortcomings comments have pale in comparison to being faced with and trying to figure out undocumented or too sparsely commented code, which, in my long experience,…
A number of programming languages allow an arbitrary range of indices for an array, including Ada, Fortran 77, and Pascal. See the "Specifiable Base Index" column in this table at Wikipedia:…
I was a long-time Tcl user and loved it. [incr Tcl], incidentally, is not a play on "+=1", but "++"; i.e., [incr Tcl] is to Tcl as C++ is to C. Speaking of event loops, before Tcl had its own event loop, I wrote a…
I read a couple of papers on the backlash (even by expert economists) against the heavy emphasis on mathematics in economics, which, IIRC from the papers, began back in the 1940s. Basically, economists work hard…
UCSD Pascal compiled to p-code. Other Pascals compiled to native code. The Wikipedia entry for Turbo Pascal indeed mentions that the TP-generated executables were extremely fast, which was a revelation to UCSD users.
>> Still fun for me, after ~15 years of coding, 5 of them professionally. Lots of us did coding as a hobby for 10 years before gettting out into the professional world. With 5 years under your belt, you're still…