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: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 388476867 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: spark23.ecf Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) References: <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <35F238F7.F57D3EC7@earthlink.net>, Charles Hixson wrote: > >But somehow pulling chunks of code into a function and then calling that >function makes things simpler, even though the flow of execution follows >the same path, so something else is going on here. > >I tend to think that one of the major activities of programming is >properly "chunking" the problem into pieces that have low-bandwidth >connections with the rest of the code. Abstraction, man! That's what you're grasping at here. :-) Abstraction is what makes things easier to understand. -PD -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.toronto.edu