In his most recent blog posting – In the Eye of the Beholder (ah, reminds me of EoB II), JavaScripter James Padolsey (if you do some JavaScripting / jQuery, follow his blog) argues that the readability of anything is entirely dependent on who’s doing the reading
. He also states that readability depends on how proficient the reader is in the given programming language.
I tend to disagree. Readability and understanding are two separate concerns. Readability is about aesthetics. Understanding is about knowledge. Code can be understood without being classified as “readable”.
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by Trond on February 20, 2010
Coming from the Open Source world I had never really worked with .NET – except for some minor Sharepoint 2007 stuff – until last September. That’s when I joined a project maintaining a .NET application written in C#.
Since I had previously worked with Java, becoming a (visiting) C# developer wasn’t that much of a leap. After all, C# was partly influenced by Java (learning new frameworks did of course impose some learning curve, but that’s of course independent of language).
C# has some nifty features that Java lacks, though. In many ways, it feels like a more modern language — pardon me for saying so! 
What follows are some of the things that I’ve started to like about C#.
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by Trond on February 6, 2010
Many people seem to think that it is impossible to write high quality code using PHP. Too often, I see comments like the ones in RHO’s Cookie Monsters in the Closet:
Or maybe he (or He) was a PHP programmer?
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This effectively shouts into your face “Hey, look what cool IF-statements a PHP programmer can write.”
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Alright, you might object, this is a PHP programmer, so he does not know Perl too well.
Although there is a certain funny tone to it, and although I don’t take it personally enough to go on a rant about it, I want to point to this article: 10 PHP Myths Dispelled.
Simply because I hear this kind of joke way too often. And too often, people seem to think it’s a fact. Read the full post »
by Trond on January 12, 2008
