speech for coding

[Rich Caloggero]

Hi. I want to first thank everyone who has commented on this. I think much
comes down to personal preference and opinion. However, I think that reading
other people's code is difficult with speech. There coding style may be very
different; the code may be full of unpronouncable names; the personal may
have a totally different way of conceiving the problem and the resulting
code will of course reflect this. Of course, all people reading other
people's code, blind or not, must face similar issues, however I still think
that reading code with cryptic variable names and lots of crazy syntax (perl
anyone) is very hard with speech. If I write my own code, I can choose names
that are pronouncible, and format the code so it matches what I expect, etc.

Again, thanx for all the commentary.

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: speech for coding


> I had to change the subject to better fit the topic at hand.  Anyway, I
> agree with everyone in that coding with speech is easy and for the most
> part you don't need to turn on all punctuation.  This is especially true
> if you are comfortable in your coding and know what punction to use for
> the different programs.
>
> Where I do find punction spoken very helpful is in the cases where I might
> have to modify someone else's existing code.  Because we all think
> differently we might put semi-colons or commas a little differently in
> programs.  Also there are times where I have to do dns work and this
> requires named.conf modifications.  Sometimes I don't know what the skills
> of the person who started the particular named.conf file are and so
> different sections of the file might be placd differently so having that
> punction spoken helps.
>
> Once I've changed the file to my personal preference and style and I'm not
> debugging it for typo errors I turn off the extra punction speaking.
>
> Just my 2 pannies worth.
>
> Raul A. Gallegos
> Email: raul at asmodean.net icq#: 5283055
> msn: ragallegos at hotmail.com aim: raulagallegos
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