Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1367

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:26:52 +0000 (UTC) in alt.folklore.computers,

Your focus seems to be maths-crypto, his maths-stats, correct? You both know how to program and probably are pedagogically correct in your teaching of it.

But that practice is a far cry from being a professional developer who has earned a living for years by developing robust, mission critical programs in various areas, languages, and platforms, with comprehensibility and maintainability close seconds in priority right behind running *correctly* for years.

The practice of developing programs is pretty similar regardless of implementation language, and it is not any harder to write correct programs in buttembler, C, Ada, PL-I, Pascal, or any other language. What will vary is the time and cost to do a particular kind of task in a particular programming language, depending on how well suited the language is to the type of data being handled and the type of processing required.

Ideally the programming language would be chosen based on the fit to the problem domain, but in reality, management often do not want to spend money on new tools that cost money or are not already standard technology used within a shop, so the programmer has to make do with what is available.

In developing for real world scenarios, you can make no buttumptions that are not already clearly spelled out with reasons in the specs, and it is not uncommon for those buttumptions to be modified, eliminated or added to as a result of implementation artifacts, and-or decisions made in response to dealing with implementation issues.

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

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