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From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Electronic Arts bashing
Message-ID: <965@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 10:00:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 16 10:00:17 1987
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Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <880@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>In article <1651@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>>
>>Data flow diagrams, Structure Charts, Data Dictionaries, Pseudocode, 
>>Coding standards, Test Plans, Lab Notebooks, the whole steenking
>>ball of wax.  Total documentation and predictability.  Yeah, that's 
>>it, that's the ticket!
>
>It's this sort of idiotic mentality that prevents quality software
>from coming out.

Oooh!  A VALUE JUDGEMENT.  
>
>I am a proponent of structured analysis and design techniques.
>If more companies started using them, then we'd have a hell
>of a lot less bugs to contend with in the software we buy.

Not really.  The sellers would have easier to maintain programs that
would more than likely miss their market windows, though.  

>Right now, we have hackers publishing a lot of the software for 
>the Amiga using a bottom-up-do-what-is-easiest-first methodology.  
>Please give me a break.  This only works in the classroom.

"bottom-up" in the classroom gets you a bad grade.  RealLife is
different.

The quality of a program is directly proportional to the quality
of the people who designed and produced it.  Structured methodology
may well be useful for imposing discipline where it is required
but it does not, by itself, insure a bug-free product (or for that
matter that any product will result) just as non-adherence to
"structure" dogma does not insure a "buggy" product.  You've been
had.

I hope your value judgement of the merit of Keith's posting is
not indicative of how you normally comport yourself in public.

-- 
Greg Laskin   
"When everybody's talking and nobody's listening, how can we decide?"
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