Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-18 Thread Laurent Pointal
C. Ng wrote: > Hi all, > > Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program where > - documentation is sparse > - in function A, there will be calls to function B, C, D and in those > functions will be calls to functions R,S,T and so on so forth... > making it difficult to trace

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread Denis McMahon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 03:05:04 -0800, C. Ng wrote: > Hi all, > > Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program where - > documentation is sparse - in function A, there will be calls to function > B, C, D and in those functions will be calls to functions R,S,T > and so on so for

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > If the documentation is sparse, writing the doc yourself is one way to dive > into someone else's code. To begin with, you can stick to the function > purpose, and for the WTF functions try to document the parameters and return >

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:05 AM, C. Ng wrote: > Hi all, > > Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program where > - documentation is sparse > - in function A, there will be calls to function B, C, D and in those > functions will be calls to functions R,S,T and so on so forth...

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
- Original Message - > Hi all, > > Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program where > - documentation is sparse > - in function A, there will be calls to function B, C, D and in > those functions will be calls to functions R,S,T and so on so > forth... making it dif

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > "C. Ng" writes: > >> Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program > > Welcome to this forum! > > I sympathise with this query. Much of the craft of programming is in > understanding the code written by other programmers, and learn

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread Ben Finney
"C. Ng" writes: > Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program Welcome to this forum! I sympathise with this query. Much of the craft of programming is in understanding the code written by other programmers, and learning from that experience how to improve the understandability of