On 03/25/2014 11:48 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:33 25/03/2014 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
As a person who learned to type on a typewriter and learned
programming on a mainframe computer [since the PC did not exist at
that time], I have not learned how to do "styles". Never really
needed it, as far as I was concerned.
Your history as a programmer is relevant - but leads me to an opposite
conclusion. Surely in programming a computer, you quickly learned
that when you needed substantially similar logic at more than one
place in a piece of software, the reliable and maintainable technique
was to separate that part of the code and to write it once as a
separate routine, invoked from as many places as necessary. Styles
are just the same: you get them right once and use them as often as
you need. You don't fall into the trap of having many identical
occurrences of something but with one or two - in error - different
(though you didn't notice). When you inevitably need to make changes
to your arrangements, you make them in one place and can be confident
that they will be instantly applied everywhere appropriate.
Brian Barker
Your coding statement[s] seem to suggest Object Orientated Programming.
Well they did not have that type of programming in any of the mainframe
languages I learned or used. OOP was a new thing when I went for my
last degree in programing and had only one brief section of a class
about it. Now that OOP is more of the standard, people may not remember
that "us older and/or mainframe programmers" were not exposed to OOP in
our education and working environments, unless we brought it into work
and tried to get our boss to except that new and "radical" technology.
Sure, as a programmer, I wrote procedures, functions, and routines, that
I would then "make fit" into the new work, but the only time we "called"
a "sub-program" was when we has a main program and we called complete
programs and not "objects". Most people I worked under wanted every
single program to be self contained. That way there was no accidents
with these "funny new objects getting lost or deleted". Times are very
different now. The last big company I worked at still used the old IBM
mainframe tech, even though Windows servers were out and being used by a
lot of companies. Just before I left, they bought a rack of IBM servers
to deal with some of the newer data communications between factories.
SO, you might guess that I had not been exposed with OOP till I started
to play with C++ in my "forced retirement" from my work related injuries
and several strokes.
I know the theory, but I have not the experience of a programmer who
grew up using OOP in their daily life.
Of course, I do use CSS in my web site designing, but I have not done
much since my back/neck/shoulder injuries got worse. I decided to spend
most of my PC time with LO support and "enhancement projects" - i.e.
797K word dictionary, and the new expended color palette options porject.
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