* Poetry? (was Hungarian notation)
@ 1996-06-10 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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From: W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) @ 1996-06-10 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
> 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.....
Of course, what management wants must also be considered :-)
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* Re: Poetry? (was Hungarian notation)
1996-06-10 0:00 Poetry? (was Hungarian notation) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
@ 1996-06-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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From: Richard A. O'Keefe @ 1996-06-11 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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.
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