My Compiler Does Not Understand Me

Until our programming languages catch up, code will be full of horrors

POUL-HENNING KAMP

Only lately—and after a long wait—have a lot of smart people found audiences for making sound points about what and how we code. Various colleagues have been beating drums and heads together for ages trying to make certain that wise insights about programming stick to neurons. Articles on coding style in this and other publications have provided further examples of such advocacy.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2220317

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