Thank you Charlie. That is the idea I am trying to get across. Do you have any suggestions about how to get developers to see the benefits of writing programs this way? Any specific books, techniques, etc.? Any pitfalls to be aware of?
Thanks, Steve -- Steve Tolkin Steve . Tolkin at FMR dot COM 508-787-9006 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. M3L Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Reitzel Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Put similarities in code and differences in data Not really. I believe it is intended to mean "data driven programming" as Jeremy mentioned earlier. To me, data driven programming means "use lotsa lookup tables, the contents of which are user tweakable". As simple as it sounds, it can be an effective technique to let you quickly adapt a system as requirements "evolve" - without code changes. Having found this hammer early in my programming career, I find a great many nails. Early days in any new design are spent setting up a "lookup table" table, along with utility routines for reporting, validation, UI picking values (one or several), etc. It may be a use case, but I don't think this is quite the same thing as the subject of this thread which, as Uri says, is a general approach to analysis. At 09:00 AM 4/4/2006 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi > >( 06.04.04 08:46 -0400 ) Tolkin, Steve: > > The difference is that I am trying to find a quote that focuses on the > > benefits of using data in a special way, as "control data", to determine > > the specific execution path taken by the code. > >um, isn't this the scientific method? > >-- >\js oblique strategy: how would you have done it? > >_______________________________________________ >Boston-pm mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
