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Date:	Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:57:01 PST8
From:	"Gregory W. Smith" <gsmith@well.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Pushing ahead

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Consulting the great benevolent dictator (the great pumpkin,
Charlie Brown) in an attempt to move things forward, I have
received the follwing decree:
Elipse: VETO
VIM: VETO
jEdit: Accepted by unanimous decision
EPM: VETO
All others: VETO

And now on to our continuing thrash.

Lynn Maxson wote:
> I really don't care how many pages of source code it takes.
> Instead of one or two thousand it could take ten or a hundred.

A hundred thousand pages... Now THAT is a specification.
(And that is a deliberate parsing of the English that is
probably not what Lynn intended. It is still a valid way
of parsing the syntax.)

>

> If you always compile "programs" from source, i.e. all
> associated procedures, you never have a need for a link or a
> make process, each of which has its own source language.
> When you have today's processors which will process
> hundreds of thousands of statements per second, even a
> two-thousand page JAVA program will hardly give it pause.

Well, by decree of the great pumpkin, we all have fast
processors.... And we all have our reading assignment for
the next programming SIG. If you REALLY want to contribute
to the SIG discussion, you should start to READ the jEdit
specificaions. Three to four hundred pages of Java code
per day should have you fully versed in jEdit.

OR.... We can continue to kvetch about object oriented
programming and the development process. (Hint: a whole
lot of software does not follow a "development process."
See: Gregory V. Wilson, "Where's the Real Bottleneck in
Scientific Computing," American Scientist, Vol.94(1),
January 2006, pp. 5-6.)
--
Gregory W. Smith (WD9GAY) gsmith@well.com

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