Re: The Desktop and the Gnomeprint

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

George <jirka@5z.com> wrote:

> > > I still don't get what you're asking here. Code -IS- design. 
> >
> > sorry, but I don't agree on that. code is implementation of design.
> 
> nope ...
> 
> code is the implementation
> code is the design
> code is the documentation

now, if we start arguing from the HACKER pov, the list should probably read:

code is cool
nobody cares for design
what is documentation?

:)))


see, I'm not trying to put things down. I'm mostly doing my stuff the hacker
way, too. it's just that there IS a scientific approach to programming and
that real work DOES get done that way. how would you, for example, hack
together a natural language parser?
answer: you can't, because those beasts are 60% research, 35% very careful
design and 5% everything else, only part of which is actual programming.

gui stuff falls somewhere inbetween. you need quite a lot of research and
even more careful design to create a real good gui. fortunatly, most of the
research has already been done and we can simply read the papers. but most
of the design work is still there.


> > they teach the whole business very differently at the university where I
> > hope to get my diploma next year. :)
> 
> I have never seen a programming class actualy teach something that has really
> been worth while in actual coding ...

what about cvs/rcs ? ;)



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