Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 08:38:36 12/21/05
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On December 20, 2005 at 19:49:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >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] Ah - I see your point. Yes, Fabien did an enormous service for the community. I do plan to look through Fruit more carefully some day. Perhaps next week when I have some time off I can review the search module. Stuart
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