From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: why not when others
Date: 1996/09/06
Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.842017361@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 322F7432.7271@iquest.com
David said
"If you are working on a large program of approx 1M semicolons and have
40 programmmers and many interdependent parts and an overly ambitious
schedule and your best change assessment tool is grep, you will learn to
program defensively by doing such things as not using "when others"
whenever possible. Learn to make the compiler do as much of the grunt
work as you can."
not to mention choosing the language that will do as much of the grunt work
as possible.
perhaps that can be a slogan for Ada 95:
The language that takes the grunt work out of programming
:-)
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-03 0:00 (no subject given) Chris Sparks
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` why not when others David Taylor
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-09-06 0:00 ` (no subject given) Jon S Anthony
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