On 4/5/20 6:28 PM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
I'm convinced that Dijksta (and anyone else who came out with similar
comments were full of horseshit. In my opinion, it's the ability to
translate a real world "thing" into an algorithm that is the essense of
programming, and anyone who has managed to learn (particularly on their
own, as many of us did) that ability has learned something that
transcends
the language (or tool) you use to implement the algorithm. When I first
started programming professionally, we had "programmers" (or sometimes
designers) who specified the algorithms and "coders" who implemented
them.
That never worked well
Yep. You can write horrible code in /any/ language. ;)
BTW, I scanned & uploaded this last week. Oddly relevant.
https://archive.org/details/cobolcodingform
I still have lots of them. And Printer Output Forms. And Fortran
Programming Forms. And all kinds of other Programming forms. And
Flow Chart Forms. You know all that stuff we actually used to
engineer programs before the software engineers came along and said
we were all doing wrong.
bill
