Comments on: Sapir-Whorf to Dijkstra to Torvalds – Language Bigotry In Our Time http://marknelson.us/2011/06/14/sapir-whorf-to-dijkstra-to-torvalds-language-bigotry-in-our-time/ Programming, mostly. Wed, 16 May 2012 08:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: umlcat http://marknelson.us/2011/06/14/sapir-whorf-to-dijkstra-to-torvalds-language-bigotry-in-our-time/comment-page-1/#comment-393248 umlcat Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:12:51 +0000 http://marknelson.us/?p=439#comment-393248 Just another programmer with compiler & programming language experience. And, yes, its difficult to work with people that stick to a single programming (real world) language. But, sometimes, it works good in the opposite direction. As a pascal programmer student, I usually like to do this, in "plain c" syntax related languages (php, d, java, c#, whatever): [c] int main() { int Result = -1; int Found = ItemFound(); if (Found) { Result = AnyFunction(); } return Result; } [/c] instead of the commonly: [c] int main() { if (ItemFound()) { return AnyFunction(); } return -1; } [/c] That pascal "Result" paradigm, works well in "C" related languages, specially, if you are debugging a result from a function. Cheers. Just another programmer with compiler & programming language experience.

And, yes, its difficult to work with people that stick to a single programming (real world) language.

But, sometimes, it works good in the opposite direction. As a pascal programmer student, I usually like to do this, in "plain c" syntax related languages (php, d, java, c#, whatever):

PLAIN TEXT
C:
  1. int main()
  2. {
  3.   int Result = -1;
  4.  
  5.   int Found = ItemFound();
  6.   if (Found)
  7.   {
  8.     Result = AnyFunction();
  9.   }
  10.  
  11.   return Result;
  12. }

instead of the commonly:

PLAIN TEXT
C:
  1. int main()
  2. {
  3.   if (ItemFound())
  4.   {
  5.     return AnyFunction();
  6.   }
  7.  
  8.   return -1;
  9. }

That pascal "Result" paradigm, works well in "C" related languages, specially, if you are debugging a result from a function. Cheers.

]]> By: SPEEDY http://marknelson.us/2011/06/14/sapir-whorf-to-dijkstra-to-torvalds-language-bigotry-in-our-time/comment-page-1/#comment-375273 SPEEDY Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:31:10 +0000 http://marknelson.us/?p=439#comment-375273 I/O RE-DIRECTIONS IN THE RUN-TIME ARE FEASIBLE TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN C BY FUNCTION POINTERS PROGRAMMED TO BE RELOADED FOR VARIOUS I/O CASES DYNAMICALLY. OF COURSE, A PROGRAMMING SKILL LIKE THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE HANDY AND EASY TO MANIPULATE IN HIGHER LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES THAN C OR ASSEMBLY. I/O RE-DIRECTIONS IN THE RUN-TIME ARE FEASIBLE TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN C BY FUNCTION POINTERS PROGRAMMED TO BE RELOADED FOR VARIOUS I/O CASES DYNAMICALLY. OF COURSE, A PROGRAMMING SKILL LIKE THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE HANDY AND EASY TO MANIPULATE IN HIGHER LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES THAN C OR ASSEMBLY.

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