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)
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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
next prev parent 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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