Re: First Avoid Coding

From: Universe (universe_at_tAkEcovadOuT.net)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:09:53 -0500

"Steven Wurster" <stevenwurster@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:d853834.0403111051.72f265a4@posting.google.com...
> Universe <universe@tAkEcovadOuT.net> wrote in message
news:<ht2150ldrbo5jm4uvm5a0mrujjln2fsm3p@4ax.com>...
> >
> > "If you don't do this abstraction, which doesn't
> > require a PhD in mathematics but does require care
> > and generalization, then you're not really fulfilling
> > your duty even if all your tests have passed with
> > flying colors." ~B. Meyer
> >
> > Elliott
> > It is somewhat scandalous that many well known, highly considered sw
> > engineering notables latch on to new, and in many cases old, but newly
> > reshaped techniques in an isolated manner. These leading lights latch
> > on to these techniques failing to take into account a big picture
> > system perspective on the techniques. In addition they fail to
> > validate the technique from a scientific viewpoint.
>
> Wait, are you agreeing with, or arguing against, Meyer? That is, are
> you saying he's one of the software engineering notables that latch
> onto things in a isolated manner, or that he's one of those who
> validate things from the scientific viewpoint. You didn't clarify
> that in your comment.
>
> But, I can tell you from being an Eiffelist and reading a lot of what
> Meyer has written, that he is indeed the latter, a
> scientific/research-oriented type of person. I just cannot tell from
> your statement which side your saying he's on.

He whom supports abstraction in the lead of development, like BMeyer, is
far ahead of the nickel and dime, baby steppers. <g>

Elliott

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