From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c54bb73b6fd8d22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued... Date: 1998/02/04 Message-ID: <6b8b6m$8hb@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 321888664 References: <6b07b3$inj$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <01bd2e9b$76253380$562c5c8b@aptiva> <6b4k6k$30t$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Organization: University of Brighton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------