| Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines [message #17136 is a reply to message #17029] |
Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00   |
Mirko Vukovic
Messages: 124
Registered: January 1996
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In article <37E0B8CA.2911FF2C@zedat.fu-berlin.de>,
fit@functional-imaging.com wrote:
> I definitely do not see anything more. Linking with numerous publicly
> available libraries gives You better functionality and - as image
processing
> mostly is mathematics and IDL is especially poor there - more reliable
> results.
names, names, please!
>
>>
>>
>> I restrict my comment for small and medium sized applications. For
>> a huge application with millions of lines of code, it may be more
>> worthwile to go to Java/C++/..., simply because of the ruggedgness
>> and the development tools.
>>
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> Everything above say 1000 LOC intended to be reused should definitely
be
> designed (!!) and implemented properly (meaning not IDL).
Well, I sure hope that you are wrong. I'm now writing a bunch of
routines (about 30 so far), and I am going to great pains to
make them understaindable for a non-me (or even me a couple of months
ago). I hope that your view does not prove 100% correct :-)
>> I agree that 5.2 is not up to C++ regarding oop, but with some
>> programming conventions, can you achieve much of the same results?
>> Like, you cannot define a private/public interface, but can
>> you as a programmer label an interface as such and use it in
>> a consistant way. I agree it is inferior to an explicit
declaration,
>> but better than nothing. (here I am threading a ``tiny bit'' beyond
>> my expertise)
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> 1.) That's exactly what OO is about. It's not just an syntactic
> (in)convenience but design and programming for an interface and for
reuse
> (not code). Much of the result of OO efforts is the interface and thus
IDL's
> pseudo OO will not (not !!) achieve any of the results a moderately
> experoenced designer will achieve with OO methodology.
> 2.) There are no two programmers on this globe who do the same thing
> consistently the same way.
>
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hmmm, I'll give you that one. Good point.
Mirko
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