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Re: Guile docstrings---should Guile code be ANSI C compatible?
- To: Gregg Reynolds <greynolds at greynolds dot com>
- Subject: Re: Guile docstrings---should Guile code be ANSI C compatible?
- From: Tom Burdick <tfb at u dot washington dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:58:45 -0800 (PST)
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> A tuppence: fwiw, I see this as a good argument for segregating longish
> comments in a separate file. The C language is for writing programs,
> not prose. Personally I like to see minimal embedded comments when
> working on code.
If you haven't, I would highly reccomend reading some of the essays on
literate programming (esp "Literate Programming" by Knuth). If you have,
you've just got a different take on programming than I.
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