From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/02/04
Date: 1998-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b8b6m$8hb@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.886438670@merv
Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: We are certainly finding that Win95 is not as compatible with NT as
: certain folks would like us to think :-)
Amen!
: Of course different people have different styles, but too many programmers
: today are introduced only to the hack-and-debug school of coding. It is
: interesting to present the clean-room model to typical programmers today
: (this is the approach in which developers are not permitted to run their
: code at all to test it, let alone to debug it -- the idea is to have
: the developers develop solid correct code, and then let a separate team
: do the testing).
: Many programmers cannot imagine writing code without testing it themselves.
: They are so used to the approximate-and-hack-into-shape approach.
Amen, amen!
[Apologies for a "me too", but so few people seem to appreciate that
you still write software if you haven't got a keyboard (or worse, a
mouse) within easy reach. Bring back twice-a-day punched card batch
systems!]
Oh reggub, I'm showing my age again... :-)
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-31 0:00 GDB Woes Continued wanker
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-02 0:00 ` wanker
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-04 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1998-02-04 0:00 ` nA edisA Nick Roberts
1998-02-02 0:00 ` GDB Woes Continued Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1998-02-03 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-02-02 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-02 0:00 tmoran
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` wanker
1998-02-02 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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