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Sharing is caring, thanks for your code, but....
01-20-2018, 10:36 AM
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Sharing is caring, thanks for your code, but....
So I was reading this discussion:
(1) http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-9955.html

then landed on this:
(2) http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-9919.html

and finally on this:
(3) http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-9973.html

I think that sharing code is great. Having sources is somewhat better than having only the binary, since one can work on the sources. Of course having sources and binary is even better. In any case sharing something is better than sharing nothing.

Nonetheless one can see that insights about the algorithm exposed in (3) are mentioned in (2), but are not reported in (3). In general more often than not the source code that gets published here is a sort of black box. One can use it, without really understanding why it is in that way. There are some examples how to use it and stop.

Comments or descriptions are almost non-existent. That is a pity sometimes, because some programs either cover some interesting topics or contains some pretty techniques that one may not notice without analyzing the code intensively. One may even decide to say "ah nice idea, although I'd like to understand the procedure. This code looks cryptic, I do it my way and then I might use this piece of code as comparison".

With comments or descriptions one can notice techniques or pointers to this or that topic a bit better.

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