Works right the first time! :confused:

Keefer S

Me too!

Forogar

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.

agolddog

It's kinda like golf. Frustration, frustration, frustration...then you smoke a 3-wood and really enjoy it again...

raddevus

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:

englebart

Silly you! You forgot to add new tests to cover that code. Try it now.

Don Hughes

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.

englebart

The old STL error messages were impressive! (and indecipherable)

Steve Naidamast

If it works the first time through, there is definitely something wrong... :)

Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

raddevus

Don Hughes wrote:

definitely got something wrong

Many people are posting this. :laugh:

raddevus

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[^]