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,f6a85e71d2c330ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: checking a loop execution Date: 2000/04/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 614958814 References: <8dl76u$etf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38fece05.0@silver.truman.edu> <8do7b2$p8h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3901fc68.0@silver.truman.edu> <8dv0ad$pk6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 956579656 10794 132.64.178.45 (24 Apr 2000 12:34:16 GMT) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Apr 2000 12:34:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-24T12:34:16+00:00 List-Id: 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 http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web Check it out and subscribe to the E-List- for interesting essays and more!