Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 2024-04-08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

There it is again: “maximal space”. The “space” is there to be used.
Code may be one-dimensional, but you have a two-dimensional screen to
display it, why not make use of that, if it makes a complex structure
clearer?

A canvas is two dimensional. That doesn't mean that a chimpanzee with
a brush is Rembrandt.

>
Another example:
>
def fill_in_depreciations(tax_year) :
    "(re)inserts depreciation entries for the specified tax year," \
    " based on currently-entered assets."
    sql.cursor.execute \
      (
        "delete from payments where kind = %s and tax_year = %s",
        ["D", tax_year]
      )
    for \
            entry \
        in \
            get_each_record \

This ain't Rembrandt.

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