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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3dbf2f325f33ce35 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses Date: 1999/07/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 496915662 References: <377B5807.88B875E0@cs.york.ac.uk> <7lh74s$v36$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7lj9lb$mos$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <931016222.255.99@news.remarQ.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@nusku.cts.com X-Trace: nusku.cts.com 931049782 880 198.68.168.21 (4 Jul 1999 00:56:22 GMT) Organization: CTS Network Services NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jul 1999 00:56:22 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-07-04T00:56:22+00:00 List-Id: "Joe Wisniewski" writes: [...] > Just a rambling thought or two .... > > Yes and no. Too many organizations still do reviews off of > hard-copy. Yes, they should and eventually will do the reviews on > line, get comments to the author on line, etc. In these cases, the > author is going to be told to get rid of the use clauses anyway. At a previous job, we did code reviews from hard-copy. It enabled us to get half a dozen or so people sitting around a table, reading the code and talking about it. Certainly the technology exists to do the same kind of thing from soft copy, but realistically most employers aren't willing to deploy the resources to give everyone net-connected laptops, or to put multiple PCs in each conference room. Anything other than face-to-face discussion (for example, doing code reviews by e-mail) loses the rapid interaction. (Of course, there were no use clauses in the C code we were reviewing -- or, if you prefer, it was full of nasty implicit ones.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> One of the great tragedies of ancient history is that Helen of Troy lived before the invention of the champagne bottle.