From: John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Prototyping with Ada
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:32:48 +0100
Date: 2008-05-28T13:32:46+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5kgq34po8tmg50p8v75a1810ug5gmpfg03@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u3aoabufs.fsf@nasa.gov
On Thu, 22 May 2008 04:43:19 -0400, Stephen Leake
<Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote:
>John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> If you approach the whole thing from the point of view you describe,
>> then you're just taking what may be poor quality code and making it a
>> bit better, which doesn't necessarily make the code (or design!) good.
>
>If you do refactoring right, you can incrementally improve the quality
>of code.
Code quality, yes (but your use of the term "right" is very
important!). It is much more difficult to refactor an inadequate
design at that point.
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2008-05-16 10:56 Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-16 12:28 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-16 13:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-16 14:33 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-16 22:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-05-17 6:30 ` rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal ) jhc0033
2008-05-17 8:28 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-17 9:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-05-17 9:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-05-17 12:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-05-17 9:38 ` jhc0033
2008-05-17 11:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-17 17:53 ` jhc0033
2008-05-17 23:21 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-18 0:28 ` jhc0033
2008-05-18 0:35 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2008-05-18 8:04 ` Prototyping with Ada (was: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal) Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-20 10:25 ` John McCabe
2008-05-20 16:57 ` Prototyping with Ada Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-05-20 17:23 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-20 17:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-05-20 23:30 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-21 0:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-05-21 12:53 ` Martin Krischik
2008-05-22 8:43 ` Stephen Leake
2008-05-28 11:32 ` John McCabe [this message]
2008-05-28 12:12 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-29 3:27 ` tmoran
2008-05-29 9:41 ` John McCabe
2008-05-31 6:03 ` Stephen Leake
2008-06-02 15:43 ` Britt Snodgrass
2008-05-17 9:45 ` rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal ) Georg Bauhaus
2008-05-17 10:57 ` Mike Silva
2008-05-17 16:49 ` tmoran
2008-05-16 22:56 ` Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal Ivan Levashew
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