From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: checking a loop execution
Date: 2000/04/24
Date: 2000-04-24T12:34:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.1000424153044.25632C-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8dv0ad$pk6$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Robert Dewar wrote:
|The "crusade" is a useful one, because the programming field
|is afflicted with people who don't really understand principles
|and try to replace them with simple absolute rules. These
|absolute rules are almost alwaysdetrimental (I won't say
|always, because then that would be a self referential
|criticism :-)
|
I usually tell my students: "This is not a coocking class, and you are not
going to be given recipes"
P.S
Actually no good coock simply follows recipes. In general a
professional/competent performer always has "operational flexibility" and
good judgement (to make things clear, so as not to fall in the same trap
as another thread: I am NOT talking about "good" judgement, but about
"good judgement"). I am sure Doug Hofstadter would enjoy these
semi-misunderstandings....
Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-19 0:00 checking a loop execution pumilia
2000-04-19 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-04-20 0:00 ` Andreas Schulz
2000-04-20 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-20 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-04-20 0:00 ` chad
2000-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
2000-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-04-20 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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