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From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
Subject: Re: usefulness of "data hiding"
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:05:54 -0600
Date: 2009-01-17T13:05:54-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f325$49722c12$4a336050$32642@API-DIGITAL.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <caae208c-451b-4650-983b-a58e42c7f5c3@d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>

Adam Beneschan wrote:

> I think that for this purpose, being capable of making a mistake makes
> one a dummy programmer.  And that would include me, despite the fact
> that I've been programming for over 30 years.   I do appreciate
> language features to help make it more difficult for me to make a
> mistake, because that cuts down on the amount of time I have to spend
> debugging my mistakes.  Actually, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't
> appreciate that, although I suspect it's an ego thing.

Heh :-) See "Confessions of a Terrible Programmer"...

(http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html)

Marc A. Criley
McKae Technologies



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-17 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16  0:51 usefulness of "data hiding" Russ P.
2009-01-16  1:08 ` Russ P.
2009-01-16  1:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-01-17 19:05   ` Marc A. Criley [this message]
2009-01-19 16:15     ` Adam Beneschan
2009-01-16  8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-16 23:23   ` sjw
2009-01-17  8:53     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-18 13:07   ` Graham Stark
2009-01-18 14:17     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-16 17:21 ` Nicholas Collin Paul Gloucester
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