A silly example
Comments and questions to John Rowe.
These two fragments of code bothcalculate the distance from the
origin of a point on a plane with gradient 1 in both the x and y
directions, but one is much clearer than the other:
Clear
double x, y, z, distance;
x = 2.1;
y = 1.3;
z = x + y;
distance = sqrt(x*x + y*y + z*z);
Unclear
double variable1, variable2, variable3;
double I_feel_like_a_banana;
variable1 = 2.1;
variable2 = 1.3;
variable3 = variable1 + variable2;
i_feel_like_a_banana = sqrt(variable1*variable1
+ variable2*variable2 + variable3*variable3);
