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Jan 6	awarded	Nice Answer
Jan 5	answered	Evidence of Bad Design: Updating feature A breaks/interferes with existing feature B
Oct 19	comment	Why has C prevailed over Pascal? @System Down OK, but then you have to explain why newer languages use curly braces. Isn't it because we simply like to type less in the end?
Oct 19	comment	Why has C prevailed over Pascal? @System Down irrespective of whether verbosity is good or not, it's a fact that begin...end drove a lot of people away from Pascal to C/C++; also newer languages adopted the { } and none of the languages of the 90's to my knowledge adopted begin...end. Simply less typing (and less reading) is what most programmers want.
Oct 19	awarded	Nice Answer
Oct 18	awarded	Yearling
Oct 18	comment	Why has C prevailed over Pascal? @back2dos: my point was, the original purpose of a language may or may not be relevant. Lisp is fairly popular now but not because it was meant for creating AI. I'm pretty sure nobody even remembers (or cares) about that these days. Likewise, I didn't care that Pascal was meant for teaching programming when I coded in Turbo. The faith of C in this regard though is pretty straightforward, just like the language itself ;)
Oct 18	revised	Why has C prevailed over Pascal? added 19 characters in body
Oct 18	comment	Why has C prevailed over Pascal? And Lisp is a language for AI research, so what?
Oct 18	answered	Why has C prevailed over Pascal?
Sep 9	comment	Can you write an unambiguous specification in a natural language like English? And then there is the halting problem, which translates to ambiguity: N is greater than N by 1 doesn't define N
Aug 26	revised	Is it acceptable to deploy web app to production directly from SVN added 188 characters in body
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Aug 26	answered	Is it acceptable to deploy web app to production directly from SVN
Jul 20	awarded	Nice Answer
May 11	comment	Single line comments for multiple indented lines of code Yes but: like I said elsewhere in this thread, longer-term commenting of code is not uncommon, and version control may not always be practical for this purpose if you have hundreds or thousands of updates already.
May 11	comment	Single line comments for multiple indented lines of code @whatsisname: look through 1500 updates to see which one to revert back?
May 11	comment	Single line comments for multiple indented lines of code Yes, except it's not always for testing purposes. Sometimes you leave a few commented lines of code as a message, e.g. "this could have been here" or "might come back one day". Customer's requirements, you know, they come in an arbitrary and illogocal manner. In these cases (longer-term commenting) I go for 2 or 3.
May 11	asked	Single line comments for multiple indented lines of code
May 5	comment	Complexity point of no return. What do you call that? @ Developer Art: ...realizing if you're still happily before that time or sadly passed beyond it - I think that's the key in giving a good definition of the point: a project that's gone beyond the point is one that no engineer would take over voluntarily.