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An obvious response is that the code itself should be self-documenting.

2010 January 13 | Serendipity 2010

An obvious response is that the code itself should be self-documenting.

2010 January | Serendipity 2010

In the long run, if it takes off, we expect both human GUIs and self-documenting code co-existing (both are necessary to solve this problem).

Documenting climate models | Serendipity 2010

An obvious response is that the code itself should be self-documenting.

Documenting climate models | Serendipity 2010

Because courageous public self-assessment like Wilson's is so rare, it summons to mind the work of another brave self-documenting feminist, the late Hannah Wilke, an early contemporary of Wilson's.

G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011

And also being a good system administrator, I had written a sendmail. cf that used the nice long self-documenting option and variable names available in Sendmail 8 rather than the cryptic punctuation-mark codes that had been used in Sendmail 5.

February « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

And also being a good system administrator, I had written a sendmail. cf that used the nice long self-documenting option and variable names available in Sendmail 8 rather than the cryptic punctuation-mark codes that had been used in Sendmail 5.

The case of the 500-mile email « Isegoria 2008

Of course, a discussion of perl could never be complete without some reference to just how awwwful the code can get – because every example of PHP or TCL (both of which get no negative mention in their chapters) are shining examples of self-documenting code.

On the anti-perl bias in publishing : #comments 2007

However, mobile: link is simpler (zero attributes instead fo three) and virtually self-documenting.

Scripting News for 9/14/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

Perhaps because they believe that doing so makes the code easier to understand and more self-documenting.

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