Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 22:08 |
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:54:50PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Just to be obnoxious, I might point out that processing capacity nowadays is
> pretty cheap compared to programmer man-hours*, wherefore the trial and error
> approach (which cuts out the time the programmer would otherwise be double-
> checking error-free code), little doubt, saves money.
Just to be obnoxious, I might point out that typos do not soley exist in
forms that a compiler will catch. A misplaced semicolon that terminates
a C for loop will go unnoticed, as did the comma to period change that
changed a FORTRAN for loop to an assignment and caused a lot of trouble
for early versions of the code for NASA's Mercury launches. To be
honest, though, the trial and error approach is used for my code, too.
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David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
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