Re: Poetry? (was Hungarian notation)

[ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)]

"W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM> writes:

>> making something that actually works is not the *end* of computing,
>> it's the *beginning*.

>I disagree with your words, though not (I suspect) with your intent.
>It is neither the end nor the beginning.  First you [should] plan and
>design (beginning), THEN you make it, then you support it.
>BTW, it's not a bad idea to have some or all of the documentation done
>BEFORE the coding.....

Well, I consider the planning, design, and documentation part of the
"making something that works" step.  What good, for example, is a program
that 'works', but whose intended users are provided with no documentation?
What I really had in mind, of course, was that it is the beginning of a
very difficult and costly phase in the life of a program:  maintenance.
Things that have no direct effect on the immediate correctness of the
code can have a very large effect on the maintenance costs.

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Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ???
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.