Re: usefulness of "data hiding"

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Jan 17, 11:05 am, "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOS...@mckae.com> wrote:
> Adam Beneschan wrote:
> > I think that for this purpose, being capable of making a mistake makes
> > one a dummy programmer.  And that would include me, despite the fact
> > that I've been programming for over 30 years.   I do appreciate
> > language features to help make it more difficult for me to make a
> > mistake, because that cuts down on the amount of time I have to spend
> > debugging my mistakes.  Actually, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't
> > appreciate that, although I suspect it's an ego thing.
>
> Heh :-) See "Confessions of a Terrible Programmer"...
>
> (http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-p...)

Wonderful...thanks!!!  Interestingly, I skimmed through the comments
and found someone suggesting that using Python will help you get to
"bug-free nirvana" more quickly.  I don't actually have any experience
with Python so I don't know why they think this might be the case...

                                 -- Adam