16 Aug
2007
16 Aug
'07
1:01 p.m.
On 16 Aug 2007 at 9:58, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
That guy doesn't seem to grasp that many real
world problems have
solutions that "evolve". A lot of the time, a programmer isn't
*completely* sure exactly how the program logic will work until it's
well on its way to being written, no? I mean, I'll have a general idea
on how everything will fit together, but I'll get the details done as I
come across them.
This reminds me of hardware sequencers that use a ROM and a few
latches. The glue around it is simplicity itself, but the toasted
gray matter that goes into actually working out the sequencer table
to keep the hardware simple is another story.
Of course, this guy probably thinks that yacc is fluff and writes his
own LALR parser tables from scratch.
Cheers,
Chuck