Trappist monks don't do it at all was RE: Assembly programmers do it a byte at a time

 
Anyway, I'm not going to get dragged too deeply in here.  Because I've
dared to opine that functional decomposition is not the Holy Grail of
programming, I'm sure I'm going to get labeled as anti-something,
probably a Luddite and most likely deserving to be hanged in the
courtyard at noon.  The truth is that many of the concepts mentioned by
the folks here (encapsulation and so on) are great concepts that all of
us, you included, should learn.  But don't buy into the premise that
what you've done all these years somehow isn't "programming".  It most
certainly is.  It's just programming of a different type. 

 


Hi Joe

As a fellow "Luddite" I quiet agree, and not wishing to get drawn too deep 
myself, and this no way reflects on anyone here, but a lot of the 'uber-geeks' 
I have met can spout a mouthfull of wonderful theory but when it comes down to 
fixing a bug in a program written by someone not straight out of "Uber-Geek" 
High they have not got a clue!, So Greg don't, as Joe says, sell yourself 
short. Learn when you can and what you can, as I am trying to do. 

Steve