>From: Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. [snipped] ...
>No brilliant piece of code was ever produced this way. Worse still, >some student just copy their classmates work and then do cosmetic >search-and-replace. Taking heed Microsoft's practice of "embrace-and-extend" :) "Maabilidad" (resourceful) - but more like "magulang" (cunning) <just kidding> >Let us write a program that >is correct in the first place, so that there is no need to debug it. In my personal experience - I have never written programs (except of course trivial ones) that runs correctly the first time - there was always a need for debugging - no matter how much I've thought it out. Even with databases, there will always be modifications (fields I should have put there - but have not, fields that were not supposed to be there - etc. etc.). -- Joshua L. San Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
