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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81cf52699486abe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses. Date: 1999/09/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 530789478 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <37EED7B8.245C0054@yukyonline.co.yuky> <37EF9B98.7F817CC0@pwfl.com> <7sqb4r$15d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7sqmk6$1ck3@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 938626535 nnrp-01:11870 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: None User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 28 Sep 1999 08:24:54 -0700, bill@yy wrote: >programmers do NOT read the code. They try something, it failes, jump >into the debugger, set up a test, buy new hardware, hire more testers, >run a profiler, etc.. they do all that, except actualy EXAMINE the code ! When I write code, I tend to try and break things up into smallest-possible steps, and use nested procedures with sensible names to describe what I want to do. I do this because then I can look at the lowest level of code and say "Yes, this is obviously correct" and then go one step up and do the same. I then write a test program, and then run that inside a debugger to make sure that everything is correct. >do you a programmer print their own code and look at it? I mean really I never print out my code. I very rarely print out *anything*. I much prefer looking at stuff on a monitor. But I'm weird like that. - Aidan -- "Every time I see her I want to geek..." "I say geek. If she runs then it was never meant to be. But if you talk about routers, TCP/IP and programming and she stays, she's yours until the counter flips"