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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Naive coding... Post 302992179 by Corona688 on Wednesday 22nd of February 2017 10:47:19 AM
Old 02-22-2017
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Originally Posted by wisecracker
"Naive coding."
(Apologies for any typos.)

I came across this phrase a couple of weeks ago and it has made me decide to set off a discussion.

I had never heard of it before but I did some research and discovered that I probably fall into this category.

My phrase is: "I code to work, not work to code!", so therefore I guess when viewing any of my code, pros' must think how primitive some of it looks.

So, what do you guys who code for a living think when you see some attempts of others solving problems and use _brute_force_methods_ for example to solve their coding problems when there are probably more elegant solutions?
For one-off scripts and things you only do once, nothing wrong with it. You're writing code to solve a problem, and if the problem's solved to your own satisfaction without severe side effects, who cares?

The problem is, coding that way, with no effort to learn further, builds bad habits. Naive methods are not applicable to all situations, or even most situations. If you only have the heavy-duty sledgehammer in your toolbox, you'll break all the smaller nails.
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Also what is wrong with a naive solution that works for the coder although it may not be anywhere near as fast as another method more obvious to someone else?
You're building audioscope.sh as a teaching tool. You've eschewed many modern features because you consider them hard to read.

I think reducing it to a quarter of its length, could make it easier to read.
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The plotting and drawing routines for example on AudioScope can't seem to be done any other way except by _brute_force_...
Saying so doesn't make it so. You've fought tooth-and-claw against anyone who tries to optimize it.
 

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page_util_quote

page_util_quote(n)					      Parser generator tools						page_util_quote(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       page_util_quote - page character quoting utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require page::util::quote  ?0.1?

       package require snit

       ::page::util::quote::unquote char

       ::page::util::quote::quote'tcl char

       ::page::util::quote::quote'tclstr char

       ::page::util::quote::quote'tclcom char

_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       This package provides a few utility commands to convert characters into various forms.

API

       ::page::util::quote::unquote char
	      A  character,  as stored in an abstract syntax tree by a PEG processor (See the packages grammar::peg::interpreter, grammar::me, and
	      their relations), i.e. in some quoted form, is converted into the equivalent Tcl character. The character is returned as the  result
	      of the command.

       ::page::util::quote::quote'tcl char
	      This command takes a Tcl character (internal representation) and converts it into a string which is accepted by the Tcl parser, will
	      regenerate the character in question and is 7bit ASCII. The string is returned as the result of this command.

       ::page::util::quote::quote'tclstr char
	      This command takes a Tcl character (internal representation) and converts it into a string which is accepted by the Tcl  parser  and
	      will generate a human readable representation of the character in question.  The string is returned as the result of this command.

	      The  string  does not use any unprintable characters. It may use backslash-quoting. High UTF characters are quoted to avoid problems
	      with the still prevalent ascii terminals. It is assumed that the string will be used in a double-quoted environment.

       ::page::util::quote::quote'tclcom char
	      This command takes a Tcl character (internal representation) and converts it into a string which is accepted by the Tcl parser  when
	      used within a Tcl comment. The string is returned as the result of this command.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This  document,	will  undoubtedly  contain  bugs  and  other  problems.  Please report such in the category page of the Tcllib SF Trackers
       [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have.

KEYWORDS

       page, parser generator, quoting, text processing

CATEGORY

       Page Parser Generator

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

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