On Sun, January 7, 2007 4:42 pm, Christoph Maier wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:19 -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>> The other problem is that modern programming also consists of passing
>> your work on to the next person.  A lack of standard libraries makes
>> that communication more difficult since now I have to learn your program
>> *and* the magic libraries you used.  I *really* hate the fact that 90+%
>> of all Lisp/Scheme libraries lack both coherent naming conventions and
>> regression tests.
>>
>> As I have said before, I no longer use libraries without regression
>> suites.  Period.
>>
> Hmmm. At the risk of looking like the newbie I am, what are "regression
> suites"?
>

Code suites that exercise a new compile to see if any errors have crept in.

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