From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Christmas wish: Literate Elisp Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:39:57 +1100 Organization: BMF Prizefighter 'President' Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: <87h81vhrek.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="102082"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 21 10:50:47 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iibPL-000QQW-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 10:50:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37998 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iibPJ-0002PC-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 04:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iibOu-0002Or-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 04:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iibOt-0002n3-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 04:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:38052 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iibOs-0002gI-Ve for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 04:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iibOn-000PqY-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 10:50:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:vbAh1NUy2WcYp8zxtCbEcZrPq1w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:243535 Archived-At: Tim Cross writes: > It is only when you do something more complex that weaknesses become > evident. > On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 15:24, arthur miller wrote: > > I have no idea if literate programmign is very good or not.I certainly > don't do it much. > I am not sure myself if this is somethign very usefull or just a cool > gimmick. I personally can see some nice use cases, > I am very conservative myself when it comes to making changes, what > is not broken should not be repaired. I am also very pragmatic. I > don't do changes just for changes sake, I do it only if it does > something useful. On Reddit¹, UselessCodeMonkey mentions two of the best development teams at writing software, rated five stars. Learnings from their practices is worth the while to apply if they're not proprietary and offlimits. Footnotes: ¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/edavxw/boeing_starliner_suffers_offnominal_insertion/ -- VanL.,  əə0@ 🐞 7 6 4 5  一 二 三 言 語 𝔖 元 示 証 明 海 自 己 漢 本 人 Gnus/Emacs (berkeley-unix)