From: "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Avoiding side effects
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:53:57 +0100
Date: 2008-10-13T22:53:57+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5198205.FC864%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d3ea88f3-cb6c-48a2-9661-5cd63fdbf188@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com
On 13/10/2008 22:22, in article
d3ea88f3-cb6c-48a2-9661-5cd63fdbf188@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com, "Adam
Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
...
> But you're absolutely right. The most important thing is to learn
> what makes a program readable and maintainable. Sometimes this just
> takes experience. But no matter what, dogmas are a very poor
Exactly.
> substitute for this kind of learning and experience. With a few
> exceptions... I still think "don't ever use ALTER statements" is
> probably a good dogma for COBOL programmers. The spaghetti-code
> programmers who wrote the old software loved using them, and they
> always made code difficult to follow. So I guess even the "no dogmas"
> dogma is the kind of dogma that should be avoided...
Nope.
I'm sure there is a good use for ALTER.
I just don't know what it is yet. 8-)
--
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-30 5:50 Avoiding side effects Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-30 7:48 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-09-30 9:20 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-30 11:36 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-09-30 12:43 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-30 10:42 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-09-30 11:12 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-02 12:56 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-10-06 12:09 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-07 11:08 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-10-07 14:24 ` (see below)
2008-10-07 14:47 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-07 14:51 ` (see below)
2008-10-08 5:16 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-08 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-08 15:32 ` (see below)
2008-10-13 12:27 ` Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-13 13:21 ` Marco
2008-10-13 18:55 ` (see below)
2008-10-14 7:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-14 11:44 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 18:49 ` (see below)
2008-10-13 21:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-13 21:53 ` (see below) [this message]
2008-10-14 6:17 ` mockturtle
2008-10-14 14:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-14 6:22 ` Avoiding side effects and other dogma Anders Wirzenius
2008-10-14 13:48 ` (see below)
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