From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/25
Date: 1996-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.848976528@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 57bj2t$c6m$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
robin said
"That too. If it's not easy to write, it's not going
to be easy to maintain either."
Surprising that anyone could actually believe this, it just goes to
show that even the most obvious and elementary principles of language
design are not universally understood.
It is of course NOT the case AT ALL that ease of writing and ease
of maintenance are the same thing, or even related. The most elementary
example relates to comments, extensive comments don't make writing easier,
but they certainly help maintenance, and when it comes to the language
itself, various elements of redundancy can help maintenance considerably,
at the clear expense of ease of writing.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-05 0:00 Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package? J.D. Baldwin
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-11-05 0:00 ` David Shochat
1996-11-08 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-11-13 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-19 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-25 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-22 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-23 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-25 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Jerry Coffin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] ` <56tjrh$4a <MPLANET.3294c204jcoffin989a3e@news.rmi.net>
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Bert
1996-11-13 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-19 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-22 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-08 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-12-15 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-11-05 0:00 Collection of 2500+ links about Object-Orientation - interested ? Manfred Schneider
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package? John Herro
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 ` James Rogers
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