13 Feb
2011
13 Feb
'11
2:41 p.m.
On 13 Feb 2011 at 16:23, Tony Duell wrote:
I would add soemthing else that managers don't
like, and that is that
using 'standard solutions' is not always best. Of course subroutine
libraries are a Good Thing. But over-use of them, when you mess about
wit hthe problem so that you can use one library routine after
another, this routine for this case, and that routine fo thtat case,
often makes a less reliable solution than writing the special routine
to solve that problem.
Brings up an interesting side question. Was FORTRAN also the
original for standard library routines, or was there something
earlier that was available cross-platform? (i.e. If I code "X =
MAX1F(A, B, C, E), it does the same on all platforms).
--Chuck