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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:12:25 +0200
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On 11.08.13 00:23, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
>> 	And that description is rather meaningless to me...
>>
>> C-style for loops pretty much mandate breaking apart into parts
>> as they ARE so generic.
>
> Yes, I think it is clear by now that we prefer to describe things
> in different ways.
>
>> Code is IMPLEMENTATION...
>
> OK, then what is not? Modelling? Drawing UML diagrams on
> whiteboards? Or keeping it in your head, but still doing it in
> stages?


Programming, a human activity, produces code manifesting the human
activity. The two words don't denote the same thing, even when quick
use of language unhelpfully dismisses the difference as pedantic.
Expressing ideas is part of writing a program; understanding ideas
is part of reading a program, one hopes. Both human activities do
not depend on that single, exemplary program's code, though:

Since different codes can express the same idea, typically there
isn't just one code for every idea.  Some ideas are so general that
a single example will not capture all of it, whereas words might:

"Better not terminate a master if dependent tasks might still be
doing some work."

Then, a single example will depict one of the many possible
situations in which the above sentence applies, and the reader
may or may not find its code helpful for understanding the idea.

task body Foo
-- ...
begin

    accept Hit;
    ...  -- more work


end Foo;

-- In a master,
-- make sure that a dependent Foo is given a chance to run to
-- completion, i.e. do its work. E.g., call an entry that comes
-- after "more work" above.