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  2. From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.edu
  4. Subject: Re: scientists as programmers (was: Small Language Wanted)
  5. Followup-To: comp.edu
  6. Date: 28 Aug 92 13:24:21
  7. Organization: Sun MegaSystems
  8. Lines: 21
  9. Message-ID: <KHB.92Aug28132421@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM>
  10. References: <1992Aug25.034553.2990@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug25.154501.8654@colorado.edu> <1992Aug25.202307.12365@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Aug26.102735.12519@wl.com> <21575@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: chiba
  12. In-reply-to: mstemper@ems.cdc.com's message of 28 Aug 92 17:50:10 GMT
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  15. >.,...top down design as applied to science programming ....
  16.  
  17. Often we *don't* understand the physical reality. *That* is why they
  18. pay (paid) us the big (medium sized at best; lawyers get the large
  19. sized numbers) bucks.
  20.  
  21. However, the details of the advice given are good. It is important,
  22. however, to not forget to iterate and *update* all those nifty
  23. comments when the data comes in, we change our understanding of the
  24. underlying reality, and alter the code.
  25.  
  26. Virtually all large long lived system evolve that way; very few are
  27. designed from scratch to be what they become.
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  31. Keith H. Bierman    keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM
  32. SunPro 2550 Garcia MTV 12-33             | (415 336 2648) fax 964 0946
  33. Mountain View, CA 94043  <speaking for myself, not Sun*> Copyright 1992
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