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Have a look at
Observe that I have the WinF sources, sent me by Julian
Wilson when I wrote those notes.
He said they may be placed on the net somewhere. I could
now place them on my
page, because I have more available now.
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Med vennlig hilsen /
sincerely
Øyvind Teig
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On 14 May 2009, at 04:09, P.H.Welch wrote:
2. Personnally, I'd like to see a development
systems akin to the old
TDS - I am so old I actually do not like the
modern programme writing
pardigm with thousnads of interlinked filelets
requiring a compendium of
flow charts and dependency diagrams and
spreadsheets to track effects.
I don't like it either, and
never did!
The (true) folding editor* is, I think, hugely underestimated
in its importance, and largely removes the temptation to try "managing
complexity" by spawning additional files. I have 3,000 lines in my
current project happily in a single file, and have in the past gone to 13,000.
I switched to a single-file style after TDS introduced me to folding c.
1988.
But I believe another factor gives rise to the many 'filelet' problem ?
the unnecessary factoring of code into a large number of very small routines,
each called just once. This seems to be endemic in programming texts,
regardless of language. Aside from sharing code, either within or
between programs, I never spawn a subroutine. Sadly, I was alone in this
position in my faculty. All the kids were led down the other path.
Readability (performance, and code-size) went down the plug-hole.
Java (and its ilk) encourage this IMHO, and extends it to classes.
Hoare argued that classes be used judiciously only as the top level of
abstraction. I found myself marking projects with code cast entirely as
a large number of very small classes comprising routines perhaps five lines
long ? introducing massive interconnection and thus almost totally unreadable.
Any algorithm was rendered all but indecipherable.
Perhaps I'm preaching to the converted ?
Ian
* by true folding, I mean that a fold is treated as a textual
composition, governing its contents ? i.e. indenting or (commenting
out) the fold indents (or comments out) each line of content. Few
so-called folding editors do this. (I use Michael
Haardt's fe though it fails this test, for want of one that
both passes and follows an emacs, rather than vi,
tradition.)
Dr. Ian East
Open Channel Publishing Ltd.
(Reg. in England, Company Number 6818450)
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