Teaching Programming

[Ed Keith]

--- On Tue, 5/4/10, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Teaching Programming
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 8:47 PM
> Ed Keith <e_... at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Knuth wanted the generated source to be unreadable, so
> people would not be tempted to edit the generated code.
> 
> This is my biggest issue with Knuth's view of literate
> programming. If
> the generated source isn't readable, am I just supposed to
> trust it?
> How can I tell if an error lies in my expression of the
> algorithm or
> in the code generation itself?
> 
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My feelings exactly. I can see an argument for an option to emit obstructed code, but the default should be readable.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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