Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines [message #17143 is a reply to message #17029] |
Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00   |
FIT
Messages: 9 Registered: June 1999
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Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> In article <MPG.124804e8864d03df9898ec@news.frii.com>,
> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
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>> I don't even have a clue what Rose or SNiFF+ are, ...
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> Two things. 1) Poor Arno. He is getting flamed, but without
> stabs like his, there would not be much progress
Well, thanks, but honestly I don't mind being flamed (at least not by some
greyhaired IDL coders)
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> 2) As for Rose, he is probably refering to products from Rational
> Rose. AFAIK, this is a software program for program development.
> I read a book by Rumbaugh et al (they run the company), where
> a problem is decomposed along three orthogonal axes:
> 1)objects, their properties and relationships,
> 2)data flow and operations
> 3)program states.
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As for SNiFF+ I was referring to a source code and project management
system from Takfive Software, used by numerous companies worldwide to
manage the complexity of their projects.
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> I used that approach a couple of times with great success. Every time
> I tried to design a complex program without it was an exercise
> in poor program design - a poorly understood program with confusing
> routines, data structures, you name it.
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Exactly the style encouraged by IDL.
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> Mirko
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