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Subject: Re: Interview with Vasik Rajlich (The Fruit of The Rybka)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:49:13 12/20/05

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On December 20, 2005 at 19:33:16, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>On December 20, 2005 at 18:14:45, Dann Corbit wrote:
[snip]
>>is solid as a tank.  His use of asserts is actually quite beautiful.  It shows
>>his clear and clever thinking.
>
>My first-ever programming course was with Bob Floyd at Stanford who pioneered
>the point of provably-correct programs with the use of ASSERT and he emphasized
>it a lot.
>
>Do I place ASSERT's in my code? I do. I should do another run with them
>activated to see if anything has been introduced to hurt the program.
>
>I saw Fabien's ASSERT()'s but didn't think THAT much of them. It's an
>established paradigm. Programmers should use it.

It's not that he uses asserts or even how frequently he uses them.  It's the
artful way in which he uses them.  I can see his thinking when I look at them.

I use asserts also, but not as beautifully as Fabien does.  I'm working on it,
though.

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