-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (with apologies for the drift towards chat...) > Hello Bill; > > Is this posting potentially significant? I just saw a citation here: > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/134835 Randy, You raise a good point. I know J is different, and attempts to force J into the mold of another language seem to go awry, but I wonder if there's a standard mode of thinking in J that seems most helpful. Here are two of my habits: The XP idea (IIRC) of creating and maintaining test cases seems worthwhile here, too; I increasingly put examples in the code for scriptdoc which I can use as test cases, although I rarely write full-fledged regression tests. Depending upon how much J and how much of the problem I've got in my head when I start work, I may write small tacit verbs and combine them in a bottoms-up sense; when I've got something that works, I may fix a composition of those small verbs to get one still manageable verb that does what I want and avoids name proliferation. Feedback and other comments are welcome. (Perhaps this is tending towards J Programming a bit now?) Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: For more information, see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFG1LrC3J3HaQTDvd8RArfnAJwOKUV2K/KmbIombVZhzvj0V8GtcgCeKXL5 Rfi3zLLrPp6GQ04l9qdcK3U= =MeW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
