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Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] philm@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, it's not, code is modular (IME should be kinda tree-structured), a book is linear.

So the API should be in your analogy the synopsis. And I haven't said, that there shouldn't be any comments. E.g. doc-comments above functions, explaining the use-cases and showing examples are good practice.

[-] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

Books can be modular as well (ever heard of "Rayuela" by Cortazar?) But that's beside the point. The analogy is fine and it works.

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