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Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines [message #17143 is a reply to message #17029] Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Registered: June 1999
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Mirko Vukovic wrote:

> In article <MPG.124804e8864d03df9898ec@news.frii.com>,
> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
>
>> I don't even have a clue what Rose or SNiFF+ are, ...
>
> 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)

>
>
> 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.
>

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.

>
> 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.
>

Exactly the style encouraged by IDL.

>
> Mirko
>
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