On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 at 01:07:14, extdgl42 wrote:
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>+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.
Yes indeed. There was a systems analyst in Kodak who used to write her
instructions (to programmers and us users) in pseudo programming
language. According to the programmers, it made their work -very- easy.
Tony
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