22 Nov
2011
22 Nov
'11
7:21 a.m.
From: "Chuck Guzis"; Monday, November 21, 2011 4:23 PM
Personally, I enjoy reading things that try to educate
me--it keeps
me from getting bored and piques my curiosity. But if you're not
curious by nature, I can see where it might be tiresome.
I enjoy these things too, but I'd argue that unless debugging is an
avocation for you, they can distract from getting the job done --
a lot of debugging is done while people are waiting for the result.
Coding is more than writing instructions--it's
about communication.
Some people will dedicate many lines of commentary explaining how a
particularly complex piece of code operates, using any literary
device to aid in understanding. I admire those who put in enough
thought to take the time to write such stuff.
If it really helps explain what is going on in a terse and to-the-point
way, then I'll be glad of it, too. If it is a distracting anecdote about
someone's lifestyle, not so much. Especially in the pre-Internet days,
I'd be mighty annoyed about having to stop and go look something
up. (Also, I am just anal enough that I wouldn't be able to resist
looking the dang thing up to see what I was missing.)
Vince