Re: Error reporting
- Posted by fizzpopsoft Jan 12, 2014
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Cobol is very wordy and consequently self documenting.
OTOH Assembler or worse, Forth is fast to execute but hard to write/follow and therefore debug.
We each choose the tool (programming language) that has the best personal choice balance of being concise vs wordy.
And at a smaller level, we chose how we want to write that code, be it with eg GOTO or not.
Especially if the code is written for myself only. My choice.
If I want to shoot myself in the foot - my choice.
I stand by what I said: advocating a change of coding style to avoid a deficiency in error reporting? No.
Silly analogy: If my foot is sore, I go to a doctor and he says well just hop on one foot then you won't have the problem? :))
Its a inconvenient workaround isn't it?
Improve the error reporting and let the programmer chose his coding style.
Regards,
Alan
