Re: PPIG discuss: What plan?

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Walenstein
An example of a simple plan is a simple find plan: iterate through the set test each set member to see if it is the target; if it is, end the iteration Most computer scientists would (hopefully) call this the linear search algorithm -- and therefore be very worried about using

Re: PPIG discuss: Bracketing -- 4 other issues

2001-09-21 Thread Andrew Walenstein
I think this is a simple readability and/or standards issue. For example, the APA publication manual specifically separates the label from the bracket in reporting statistics and degrees of freedom, for example for an analysis of variance it is F (2, 24) not F(2, 24). I'm not so sure.

Re: PPIG discuss: Hello / how we debug

2007-01-07 Thread Andrew Walenstein
First, hello to Dan Frost. C.Douce wrote: Whilst I do appreciate the simplicity (and elegance) of the 'print I'm here' approach, when it comes to developing embedded systems nothing can beat a monitor program, a serial cable and the ability to plant break points in your code when you begin

Re: PPIG discuss: Documentation for large systems

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Walenstein
Ruven E Brooks wrote: Suppose that you were hired (at an outrageous salary, of course) to be the chief architect of this system. If you could have a 20 page initial document on the internal structure of this system, what would that document contain?... Other thoughts, suggestions are welcome.

Re: PPIG discuss: Documentation for large systems

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Walenstein
Gaspar, Alessio (USF Lakeland) wrote: I can understand the love'em / hate'm positions regarding wikis, however I couldn't help but notice that some of the arguments below are very close to what used to be said by corporations about open source projects and development methodologies All wikis

Re: PPIG discuss: Documentation for large systems

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Walenstein
Ruven E Brooks wrote: 3. I didn't rule out active discovery of content. In fact, that's what people do today in our organization; they look at the code and analyze the code, using tools of varying degrees of sophistication. The problem is, it's terribly time consuming, and the same discovery