Comments on: 8-Year-Olds Should *Read* My Code http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/ a disgruntled developer taking a stand in the information multiverse Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rebol Tutorial - Protect Access to your Rebol Script with PHP (kind of Easy Distributed Web Service) http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/#comment-989 Rebol Tutorial - Protect Access to your Rebol Script with PHP (kind of Easy Distributed Web Service) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:39:03 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=117#comment-989 [...] instead of quotes so that you can avoid ugly escape characters. Also, as Hostilefork puts it the “benefit of using an asymmetric symbol is that REBOL can handle embedded braces as long as the.... It’s also more readible when you have to handle “‘”, you can write [...] […] instead of quotes so that you can avoid ugly escape characters. Also, as Hostilefork puts it the “benefit of using an asymmetric symbol is that REBOL can handle embedded braces as long as the…. It’s also more readible when you have to handle “‘”, you can write […]

]]> By: Leaf http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/#comment-942 Leaf Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:30:00 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=117#comment-942 [Note: I switch between three of my email IDs of mine randomly when posting comments, so I'm not sure if it's the same ID as last time...] I dunno; they did seem to make it "less revolutionary" but then they added user-datatypes(?) so I'm still looking forward for R3 ^_^ [Note: I switch between three of my email IDs of mine randomly when posting comments, so I’m not sure if it’s the same ID as last time…]

I dunno; they did seem to make it “less revolutionary” but then they added user-datatypes(?) so I’m still looking forward for R3 ^_^

]]> By: Hostile Fork http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/#comment-939 Hostile Fork Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:21:51 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=117#comment-939 Thanks Leaf! REBOL indeed does some things simply. Though in examining the R3 development I think it's more "set in its ways" and favoring compatibility with R2 over really busting up the barriers to understanding of source. They also are quite concerned about performance, even though I don't know anyone called R2 slow. :) Still, it's good to look at for ideas... Thanks Leaf!

REBOL indeed does some things simply. Though in examining the R3 development I think it’s more “set in its ways” and favoring compatibility with R2 over really busting up the barriers to understanding of source. They also are quite concerned about performance, even though I don’t know anyone called R2 slow. :)

Still, it’s good to look at for ideas…

]]> By: Leaf http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/#comment-938 Leaf Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:58:37 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=117#comment-938 Hi, I like your articles on REBOL; they give an insight into the area of coding that I want to read more about. It's probably the only language to have so much stress on simplicity on design than performance.. I also agree with Carl and you that complexity of a system should be kept minimal; increased complexity tends to brings down the predictable nature of any machine.. Hi, I like your articles on REBOL; they give an insight into the area of coding that I want to read more about. It’s probably the only language to have so much stress on simplicity on design than performance.. I also agree with Carl and you that complexity of a system should be kept minimal; increased complexity tends to brings down the predictable nature of any machine..

]]> By: Hostile Fork http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/#comment-928 Hostile Fork Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:21:17 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=117#comment-928 Hello Reboltutorial, thanks for visiting! IMO, the appearance of two different types of string quoting in <i>most</i> languages is more frustrating than helpful. If something contains double quotes, then it is just about as likely to contain single quotes! I find myself just trying to standardize on a single kind because the inconsistency bothers me... But REBOL's two kinds really do seem to offer an advantage. That's because English so rarely uses braces. So a sentence like {"I'll be back," said The Terminator.} can be handled easily. Then there is code, where braces mostly occur in pairs! You may have noticed there are a couple other REBOL-oriented articles on the site: ( <a href="http://hostilefork.com/tag/rebol/" rel="nofollow">http://hostilefork.com/tag/rebol</a> )...perhaps they would be of interest to you or your readers. Hello Reboltutorial, thanks for visiting!

IMO, the appearance of two different types of string quoting in most languages is more frustrating than helpful. If something contains double quotes, then it is just about as likely to contain single quotes! I find myself just trying to standardize on a single kind because the inconsistency bothers me…

But REBOL’s two kinds really do seem to offer an advantage. That’s because English so rarely uses braces. So a sentence like {”I’ll be back,” said The Terminator.} can be handled easily. Then there is code, where braces mostly occur in pairs!

You may have noticed there are a couple other REBOL-oriented articles on the site: ( http://hostilefork.com/tag/rebol )…perhaps they would be of interest to you or your readers.

]]> By: reboltutorial http://hostilefork.com/2009/06/16/eight-year-olds-should-read-code/#comment-926 reboltutorial Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:07:51 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=117#comment-926 Very thoughtfull article, not sure to understand the whole C++ stuff but I remember something we demonstrate at school 1=0.99999 ... in theory :) I also love your remark about Rebol braces, I never thought about it consciously but I feel I have always liked Rebol because of Rebol capability to "handle embedded braces as long as they match up". This will probably inspire an article in the future where I will refer to yours. Very thoughtfull article, not sure to understand the whole C++ stuff but I remember something we demonstrate at school 1=0.99999 … in theory :)

I also love your remark about Rebol braces, I never thought about it consciously but I feel I have always liked Rebol because of Rebol capability to “handle embedded braces as long as they match up”. This will probably inspire an article in the future where I will refer to yours.

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