On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:51:51 -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 6/10/05, John Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would you write programs backwards? I would hate to write a >> backwards compiler to compile your backwards programs. > Doesn't everyone write their programs backwards? Don't you _start_ at > the end? I program randomly. Err. That's random as opposed to sequentially; not as in I bang random keys on my keyboard and hope for the best. ;-) I write one function, then jump to another function, then decide to change something in the first function, start a third function, ... It's also how I generally write emails. Write one paragraph, start writing the next paragraph, change something in the first paragraph, add something between the paragraphs, ... Maybe I have attention deficit dissor... Oh, look, a bird! However, how I *write* programs or emails is different from how I *present* them. Even though they are written randomly, they are presented in a (hopefully) well laid out, sequential manner; I don't have random thoughts scattered all over the place. I would not expect anyone to be able to follow my emails if they read them in the order that I wrote them. [...] > Then again, I do have a tendency to read Dr. Dobb's Journal from > Swaine's Flames to the front! Yeah, I do that too sometimes with various publications. Then again, since most of the articles stand on their own, it doesn't really matter what order you read them in. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
