On Feb 22, 10:21 am, val bykovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > To me your post is very interesting and needs > time to think it through and respond (i enjoyed > reading it and digesting each point/thought).
Thanks. > It is certainly thought-provocative. To me, > it is about a fundamental mechanism of programming. Yes. > So, looking from this angle, you came to the heart of programming. > Unit tests is a reference/control info to incrementally build-up > a program - 'configure' a programmable material. I agree. We already have these really cool controllers. They are called human beings :-) Human controllers have all kinds of ideas and desires, but we aren't real good at maintaining attention, and handling myriad details. So we need help. Unit tests are that help. They are as flexible as their human controllers make them. The collaboration of humans and @test is superb: each can do what it does best. > this 'probing' technique is applicable to exploration of the whole class of > 'complex systems'. Yes. > Does this 'angle' make any sense? It certainly does. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
