Re: Downloading webpages

Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Rainer Weikusat wrote:
'readable' and 'maintainble' are properties of text and not of
language.

Certain languages make it easier to write well understandable code,
That is a usual claim made by people advocating the use of 'certain
languages', but it is nevertheless untrue, because those are
properties of texts.

And yours is a usual claim by people advocating the use of the
other certain languages, the ones that make it hard to write
readable and maintainable code ... well, text, if you will,

But I am not advocating the use of any language and if I would, that
could not possibly affect the fact that I cited above. This may be
less true for a language like English, which has as very simple
grammar, but in German, for instance, it is fairly easy to write
totally correct sentences that many or even most people don't
understand. And German is still a fairly simple language, compared
to others (Polish, for instance).

Readability and maintainability may be properties of text, but
there is a direct cause-effect association between the choice
of a language, and the *difficulty* of producing readable and
maintainable *outcomes* while using the said language

The most frequent problem wrt 'readablity' in source code is the
general unwillingness of 'average' programmers to structure code
anyhow and to use meaningful identifiers instead of mnemonics.
.

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