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. [snip]
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