On Aug 25, 5:01 pm, Joshua Maurice wrote:
> I agree. Sadly, with managers, especially non-technical
> managers, it's hard to make this case when the weasel
> guy says "See! It's working.".
Actually, it's not that hard. The key to communicating the true cost
of software development to non-technic
On Aug 24, 9:05 pm, Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> What about using what I learned to write programs that work?
> Does that count for anything?
It obviously counts, but it's not the only thing that matters. Where
I'm employed, I am currently managing a set of code that "works" but
the quality of that cod
On Aug 24, 8:00 pm, Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> The C programmers reading this are likely wondering why I'm being
> attacked. The reason is that Elizabeth Rather has made it clear to
> everybody that this is what she wants: [http://tinyurl.com/2bjwp7q]
Hello to those outside of comp.lang.forth, where H
On Aug 20, 6:51 pm, Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> You can see an example of lists in my novice package (in the list.4th
> file):http://www.forth.org/novice.html
> Also in there is symtab, which is a data structure intended to be used
> for symbol tables (dictionaries). Almost nobody uses linked lists for
On Aug 17, 4:19 pm, Standish P wrote:
> > > It is true that the other languages such as F/PS also have borrowed
> > > lists from lisp in the name of nested-dictionaries and mathematica
> > > calls them nested-tables as its fundamental data structure.
>
> > No.
>
> you are contradicting an earlier
On Aug 17, 2:53 pm, Standish P wrote:
> Another way to pose my question, as occurred to me presently is
> to ask if a stack is a good abstraction for programming ?
> Certainly, it is the main abstraction in Forth and Postscript
> and implementable readily in C,C++ and I assume python.
A stack is
