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Literate programming by Donald Knuth
Literate programming is a programming style introduced by Donald Knuth in 1984. The focus is on explaining the logic and reasoning behind a computer program (comments) to human readers, rather than just providing instructions for the computer ( plain source code ). The key ideas are: Definition Literate programming is a programming paradigm where a computer program is explained in natural language interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code. Purpose Used for reproducible research and open access in scientific computing and data science. Approach Literate programming by Donald Knuth Gives programmers templates to develop programs in the order demanded by the logic and flow of their thoughts. Moving…
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Locality of Behaviour
Locality of Behaviour is a great principle that should help with maintaining the code. This is the characteristic of the code that enables a developer to only read a small portion of code to understand its function. Without the need to skip, skim, read, jump all over multiple files. I love that rule cause it DOES MAKE SENSE. I can see many places where we would benefit from it but not always do it that way because of the ‘standard’. Which, in the end, nobody knows what it is anymore cause everyone is mixing patterns, antipatterns and the number one performance metric is how fast you can deliver… maybe i…
