Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:55:37 07/03/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 03:35:32, Uri Blass wrote: Replying to the title: All of them have more than one author (IMO). Most of the authors are indirect, rather than direct. >I think that the fact that most programs have only one author is a disadvantage. I agree, >I believe that programmers could progress significantly faster if the program >was designed by 2 persons when one person decide about the data structure of the >program and the algorithm and the second person implement it without bugs. I agree. >The problem of a lot of chess programs is bugs and part of the bugs are bugs >that the authors even do not know about them. Multiple authors are not as important as careful test plans, debugging tools, knowledge, and experience. The best thing about multiple authors in that regard is that there is a sort of "running code review" that speeds up programming quite a bit. >I think that a person that his talent is not finding good ideas but implementing >ideas without bugs may be productive for a lot of programmers. With less bugs is more realistic. >I wonder if there is a team of 2 programmers in chess when the job of one >of them is not to suggest data structure and algorithms but only to write the >program with no bugs based on a given data structure and algorithms that are >given by the second person in the team. I think it will turn out better if both are deeply involved. The "look for bugs only" guy will definitely get bored. To find bugs, it is much better to have disinterested testers beat the crap out of it and try every evil trick that they can imagine to make it fail. >Uri -IMO-YMMV
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