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Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help [message #35937 is a reply to message #35884]

Mon, 28 July 2003 15:27

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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astronomer writes:

> Now I have several links (the link:
> http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips.submemory.html is not working) to
> help me in this quest!!

Right. This should be this:

http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/submemory.html

> I am at the same time updating old versions of the program by
> implementing the changes, trying to understand the changes, and trying
> to continue the program to get some science done (but now everytime I
> add something to the program I can`t help feeling that it must be
> soooo inefficient! someday I`ll laugh (or cry) upon reviewing my
> code).

Don't worry about it. Everyone I've ever known who
leaves an IDL programming class (including the
instructor!) laments about how they are going to
have to spend the next two weeks re-writing their
programs. It's an on-going and never-ending process.

Do what you can, but don't dwell on it. Just
try to write better programs in the future.
At the end of a career no one wishes they had
spent more time revising their programs. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I'm looking at some code today
that has me shaking my head and wondering just what
(if anything) was going on in the mind of the author
when he wrote it. :-)

--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
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		Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Thu, 24 July 2003 13:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Tue, 29 July 2003 15:21
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Tue, 29 July 2003 10:16
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Pavel Romashkin on Tue, 29 July 2003 08:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: jjbezair on Tue, 29 July 2003 06:34
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 July 2003 15:27
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Mon, 28 July 2003 14:53
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Mon, 28 July 2003 14:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: pford on Mon, 28 July 2003 11:30
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 July 2003 08:32
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 July 2003 06:45
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Ben Panter on Mon, 28 July 2003 05:40
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		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Sat, 26 July 2003 13:48
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		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Fri, 25 July 2003 19:14
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 25 July 2003 15:34
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