Book "python programming patterns". anybody read this??

[Peter Milliken]

Actually, I doubt there is any intersection - or perhaps I should qualify
that by an intersection in the realms of code that you and only you will
ever have to look at or maintain.

I side with Roy's opinions purely because it is almost never the code author
that has to maintain the code (at least on systems I have worked on over the
last 20 years :-)). Generally the standard of maintenance programmer is just
not as good as developers (otherwise they would be developing, wouldn't
they? :-)) and so it is a well recognised tenant that I attempt to follow -
code for the lowest common denominator. Code that is difficult to read will
always be difficult to maintain - and you can end up with some real messes
by people changing code they don't understand! :-)

So if this book contains code and examples that require that kind of thought
then it might not be such a good book to buy. I am Australian, the exchange
rate is roughly 2:1, so whilst I noticed the book on the shelves of my local
bookstore the other day, I doubt that I will purchase a copy after reading
these comments :-). Shame, I was tempted to because of the sections on
patterns.......

Peter

"Courageous" <jkraska at san.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> >I havn't seen the book, but I have to wonder about the above.  Over the
25
> >or so years I've been programming, I've gradually shifted my priorities
> >from elegance, cleverness, and efficiency, to simplicity and ease of
> >understanding.
>
> "As a younger programmer, I prided myself in the number of lines of
>  code I wrote. As an older programmer, I pride myself in the number
>  of lines of code that I reduce."
>
> There is a certain intersection of the two geometries of your life,
> where elegance and cleverness overlap simplicity and comprehensibility.
> Or so I believe, and strive for.
>
> C//
>