Some Comments on the Coding of Programs
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posted on 2023-05-25, 23:49 authored by Holmes, WNThis essay examines common coding practices and, on the basis that program code should be designed to avoid errors, argues for example that punctuation symbols should not be used in program code as though they were in literary text. Carrying the argument further, it is asserted that the computing profession should not talk about programming languages or about writing programs, but about coding schemes and coding programs.
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Publication title
ComputerVolume
33Article number
11Number
11Pagination
128, 126-127ISSN
0018-9162Publication status
- Published
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