An interesting article on text-book vrs real-world programming

In article <50DB55D9.3010709 at sydex.com>, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> writes: Maybe you haven't looked at C++ in a while. Modern C++ is a single language that can encompass many programming styles. The situation described in the article cited has nothing to do with the programming language and everything to do with code development that leave out automated regression testing. If you have automated regression tests on the code base, then you can make improvements to the code base knowing that you didn't make things worse instead of better. Without it, you tend to make the minimally invasive change that is localized as much as possible. This results in the accumulated detritis described in the article as time passes. What was initially a nice clean design eventually becomes a giant stove-pipe engineered solution. Again, none of this has anything to do with the language chosen for the software, although some languages make it easier to create automated unit tests and automated regression tests that give you the confidence that your changes have made things better, not worse. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>