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Article #620965Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:25
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:25
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On 2018-02-25, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-02-25, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [32 lines snipped] > >>> Structured programming is not about "solving problems", it is about >>> avoiding creating unnecessary ones. Anybody who has tried to figure >>> out what is going on in somebody else long retired's uncommenented >>> spaghetti APL (you think spaghetti BASIC is bad, you ain't seen >>> _nothin_ yet) instantly develops a huge appreciation for structured >>> programming. >> >> Unfortunately, good structured programming takes WORK. What gave it a bad >> name were the "programmers" who thought that pulling arbitrary groups of >> statements into subroutines was all that was necessary to produce good >> code. 'zackly. The real zealots treated the number of subroutine calls as a figure of merit. Such people produced code that was the programming equivalent of a huge bureaucracy. > Perhaps the old saw about it being possible to write spaghetti code > in any language heeds extending to include any methodology? IMHO the undisciplined use of subroutine calls is as bad as the undisciplined use of GOTOs. The result is spaghetti either way, except with subroutine calls you're running double strands. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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