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The hard-science people rarely know how to write, and most of them don’t know how to program either; they’re taught how to code up an algorithm, not how to write a maintainable computer program.
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Best definition: Good manners is making the people around you feel comfortable. Here is the same thought again: “Good writers have developed an abiding empathy for their readers, while bad ones haven’t.”—Bryan Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English (University of Chicago, 2001), page 145.
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Stueben, M. (2018). Style. In: Good Habits for Great Coding. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3459-4_3
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