On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:58:16 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Joseph Newton) wrote:
> I'm sticking with my guns here. Extended passages of sequential code > are the breeding grounds for errors. They become progressively more > difficult to debug. As needs change, such code becomes more and more > difficult to adapt to those needs. Eventually, such code will end up > having to be re-written from the start, because the lack of separation > between functional elements will make for unintended side effects of > any changes. In short, it becomes garbage. I happen to agree with this point of view; that if a subroutine or function takes up more than a certain amount of space (usually it is a 'feeling' that it is inefficient and not a number of lines ;-) ) then it is going to have more bugs in it that a shorter piece of code. I would like to go on record as being a person that is guilty of producing inefficient subroutines, or code that is bigger than it needs to be- that is part of the learning process; 3 months from now I predict that most of the code I have written will need to be rewritten to use new [better] skills and [more efficient] methods I have learned. Hopefully, these new skills will extend the reusable parts of my code. Feel bad about producing garbage, but accept it happens, Don't throw anything away, recycle it! GL -- Gavin Laking - Web Development Daemon http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk/ -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
