Timeline for answer to Why does Java support brackets behind variables and even behind method signatures? by Random42
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| May 13, 2014 at 13:46 | comment | added | andy256 | @jwenting One can write unreadable code in any language. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 13:25 | comment | added | jwenting | @andy256 and for many people utterly failed. Recall the obfuscated C programming contest series? Not sure if they're still going on. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | andy256 | @jwenting yes it is (at least in the procedure division). I was responding to the erroneous claim that readability was not a focus then. Brevity was a way of improving readability. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | andy256 | @m3th0dman verbosity is unrelated to memory use for a compiled language. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 6:47 | comment | added | jwenting | @andy256 Cobol is highly readable, far more so for people with no strong background in mathematics than is C. Don't know Algol. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 6:22 | comment | added | Random42 | @andy256 In B and C they reduced verbosity thus readability by writing less code - thus less memory occupied by code. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 6:18 | comment | added | Random42 | @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner I said that they didn't focus on readability but on performance; I don't know by which inference you deduced from what I said that this particular syntax improves performance. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | andy256 | back in the 70s in language design they didn't focus that much on readability This is just plain wrong. The syntax of B and C were a response to the verbose syntax of Cobol and Algol. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 21:22 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | How does this syntax improve performance? | |
| May 12, 2014 at 21:15 | history | answered | Random42 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |