| ??? 07/03/07 21:05 Read: times |
#141461 - re: Productivity Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Chris Kelly said:
Andy Peters said:
When I see someone's unparenthesee-ized code and can't figure out what they're trying to do, I reach for my copy of "Practical C Programming" and look it up. If this happens infrequently, then that's ok, but if you have to go to a reference to be able to follow every 3rd line of code then your productivity plummets compared to someone who has the rules "burned in". As I said, I switch between C and VHDL on the same projects and they have different rules. Throw Verilog into the mix, and it's all over. So I prefer to be explicit. I was interviewing a guy once, and he was having trouble with a simple C programming question I had given him. It appears he never used "for" loops. He only used "while" loops (because you can do everything you need to with "while", and "for" is just confusing, what with 3 different expressions in that one statement). That's an extreme case. -a |
