Design is Key
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:49:27 -0500
"It has heavily contributed to my subsequent opinion that creating
confidence
in the correctness of his design was the most important but hardest
aspect of
the programmer's task. In a world obsessed with speed, this was not a
universally
popular notion."
EW Dijkstra "What led to 'Notes on Structured Programming'"
Elliott
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Despite the tests being based upon analysis, if at each point
design is not mainly resting upon as Djkastra's says functional
decomposition, the interrelationship of abstractions, what is riskiest
etc. there is a much greater chance of the averse as opposed to the
reverse occurring. !;- >
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