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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 603396624 References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 954249938 209.250.225.153 (Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:25:38 CST) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:25:38 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Robert Dewar" wrote in message news:8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > Learning just enough of language x to get problem y working is > NOT necessarily very much related to learning language x (for > any x or y). That's fair, but if you're just exploring how the syntax works, that's orthogonal to program design issues. When learning Java, I had to write tiny, uncommented, unreadable programs to test my understanding of how certain language features worked. I didn't worry about readability since I knew I was going to throw the thing away right after it started working. That doesn't mean I didn't also look at how Java classes, interfaces, etc. can be used to address program design issues.