Re: Did I write a good (efficient) program?

"Michael Mattias" <mmattias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> I don't about "industry" but I have always weighed 'maintainability' 
>>> very, very heavily: When was the last time you saw a program which
NEVER 
>>> was upgraded/enhanced/changed?
>>>
>> I have dozens of them :-)
>>
>> They're called "components"...
>
> Applications programmers (eg, moi) don't think in terms of "components";

> strangely enough, we think in terms of "applications."
>
> I guess that explains as well as anything why it is 'systems'
programmers 
> are the ones who just couldn't cut it in applications.
>

:-)

I build Applications from components; probably comes from using Meccano
with 
my Dad when I was a kid (before they invented Lego).

I have tried doing it the way you do, but I like the component based 
approach better.

"Chacun a son gout" as the Irish say...

Pete.
-- 
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."