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From: Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Feb 19, 2005 12:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 at 14:50:13, James Hunkins wrote:
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>:) That story sounds all too true. I have actually seen some very fast
>Java but unfortunately, that is more the exception than the norm. It
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I keep quoting Lau's brilliant superHermes documentation, but it is
worth repeating.
The sH _asm was vast, but is mainly documentation.
He wrote giant introductions, where he had a dialogue (with himself) on
how to approach basic logic, listing out -all- his thoughts.
Brilliant. Not only does a future programmer know what he did ('cos it
is there) but what he rejected.
<...snip...>
+Reminds me of a favorite story from work years ago (I think this is
+what's being talked about): I had a particularly important mod due
+"yesterday". I tried several times to jump into coding without
+success, getting caught in tangles of logic, both "sensible" and
+"coding". I stepped back, took a day or so to write a page and
+a half of structured English, and then the code, less than
+half a page, fell together from that.
+What's just as funny is that we were a "text-crunching" shop
+(and still are to a degree), using (rum droll) FORTRAN!
+But that's another story.
+Doug L. Oak Ridge, TN USA.
Tony
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