From: Mark Wilden <mark@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T13:33:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language?

On May 29, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Dave Bass wrote:

> Hear hear. Clarity should win over compactness every time, IMHO. (Even
> in Perl.)

However, compactness can sometimes add to clarity, simply because you  
don't have to read so much code to find out what's going on.

> In my own coding I like one idea per line, and one comment every 5-10
> lines on average.

I only comment code that's difficult to understand. I try never to  
write code that's difficult to understand.

///ark