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Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] philm@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, it's not, code is modular (IME should be kinda tree-structured), a book is linear.

So the API should be in your analogy the synopsis. And I haven't said, that there shouldn't be any comments. E.g. doc-comments above functions, explaining the use-cases and showing examples are good practice.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Books can be modular as well (ever heard of "Rayuela" by Cortazar?) But that's beside the point. The analogy is fine and it works.