Not Incrementing

Victor Subervi victorsubervi at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 03:30:57 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:46 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> Victor Subervi wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:01 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com<mailto:
>>> python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Victor Subervi wrote:
>>>
>>>        On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org
>>>        <mailto:davea at ieee.org> <mailto:davea at ieee.org
>>>
>>>        <mailto:davea at ieee.org>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    [snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>           Incidentally, good naming would help to make the code easier to
>>>           debug.  This finalTrees and trees variables don't look to me
>>> like
>>>           you intended them to be trees at all, but lists of
>>>        tab-indented data.
>>>
>>>        No kidding. Many people have commented on my poor choices of
>>>        names. That's one of the things on my agenda to change (with
>>>        some tools that I understand are out there) once I get this
>>>        program finished and working for clients.
>>>
>>>    Your clients will get it _with_ its faults? You'll fix it with some
>>>    tools that you _understand_ are out there, ie you haven't looked
>>>    for/found them yet? Yikes! :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> How many espressos do you drink a day? Do you mainline the stuff? Relax,
>>> dude. Rome wasn't made in a day. I'll get there. Chill out, dude.
>>>
>>>  Programming is about attention to detail. It's not like poetry, with its
>> "poetic licence". Has a mistake in poetry ever caused a rocket to fail
>> (Ariane 5, flight 501)? :-)
>
>
> Heavens no! And thank goodness! Yes, as I like to say, "The devil is in the
> details...and well employed in software development!" LOL!
> beno
>

PS

Poetry is the art of writing
what goes without saying.

beno
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