Works right the first time! :confused:
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"If you get a different error message, you're making progress."
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Surprise-driven development.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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COBOL at least had a cross-reference listing.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Greg Utas wrote:
Of course, it's usually the opposite, at least for me. This'll fix it. [runs test] :mad: WTF!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Haha! Yeah, me too. That's why I'm sitting here shocked that it worked. :-D
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You realize that if it ever needs an upgrade ... you'll be unable to touch it just in case ... :-D
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I once wrote this expert system (in Fortran 77) for flight analysis. It was several thousand lines of code with a built in macro language to define state models and events to detect. It worked pretty much first time and I had 100 engineers using it for years without problems except for adding more features to make things easier to define, etc. I left the company a few years after implementing it but the system ran on and on. After I left they assigned a team of three programmers to update and or rewrite it but they apparently were too scared of breaking it to change anything. They attempted once to modify a small part of it and broke the whole thing - instant rollback time! They did managed to port it - with no code changes - to a newer mainframe but that was it for 20 years! Next time I might do more documentation than auto-generated flowcharts! ;-)
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When you're writing code and you're like, we'll I'll just try this... :~ Write a bunch of code, add a function, etc. Ok, let's try it out... ...then it works!!! What!?! This is why I'll always enjoy software development. Because, every once in a while, I get something to work. :laugh: It's just enough that it keeps leading me on to keep on going. :laugh: :laugh:
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It's kinda like golf. Frustration, frustration, frustration...then you smoke a 3-wood and really enjoy it again...
agolddog wrote:
It's kinda like golf. Frustration, frustration, frustration...then you smoke a 3-wood and really enjoy it again...
Great comparison. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Really is very similar. Just as you're about to give up on it for life, (and you've thrown a couple clubs into the frog pond) you make a nice shot. "Well, I probably shouldn't quit now." :rolleyes:
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Greg Utas wrote:
Of course, it's usually the opposite, at least for me. This'll fix it. [runs test] :mad: WTF!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Haha! Yeah, me too. That's why I'm sitting here shocked that it worked. :-D
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That quite possibly, is more help than we were given when first introduced to c++ templates at uni.
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When you're writing code and you're like, we'll I'll just try this... :~ Write a bunch of code, add a function, etc. Ok, let's try it out... ...then it works!!! What!?! This is why I'll always enjoy software development. Because, every once in a while, I get something to work. :laugh: It's just enough that it keeps leading me on to keep on going. :laugh: :laugh:
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When you're writing code and you're like, we'll I'll just try this... :~ Write a bunch of code, add a function, etc. Ok, let's try it out... ...then it works!!! What!?! This is why I'll always enjoy software development. Because, every once in a while, I get something to work. :laugh: It's just enough that it keeps leading me on to keep on going. :laugh: :laugh:
If it works the first time through, there is definitely something wrong... :)
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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If it works the very first time you tried it, then you
definitely got something wrong that will come back and bite you on the ass in a few months.
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englebart wrote:
You forgot to add new tests to cover that code.
Yes, yes, forgot. That's the ticket. Forgot the tests. :laugh: Steve Martin: How many times do we let ourselves get into terrible situations because we don't say, "i forgot"? You Can Be a Millionaire - YouTube[^]
