IBM 610 workstation computer 3406

On 21 Feb 06 10:20:29 -0800 in alt.folklore.computers, "Charlie Gibbs"

Bad programmers can write spaghetti code in any language. Thus the total lack of any overall improvement in software quality, despite decades of knowledge and techniques designed to improve the product and process. The biggest variation in the overall process is between individuals, so without good analysts, designers, programmers, testers, you'll always get a crappy product: weakest link and all that.

But they'll use every technique they know to keep that job manageable.

Biggest problems I've seen have been too much emphasis on modularizing and structuring the low level library code used to get the job done, with a consequent bloat in the amount of housekeeping code required; and insufficent emphasis on structuring the approach to doing the job or solving the problem, keeping the number of interfaces to lower level code restricted, pushing all the housekeeping code down to a problem-library interface layer, reducing the total volume of code, and limiting the potential for the implementation details to screw up how the real work eventually gets done.

-- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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