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Software Abstractions: there, but not in use.: msg#00193lang.j.general
Read your notes at URL http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.54.html#subj1; in general well structured, but you may want to take a look at "History of Programming L:anguages" as well as simi8lar reference work on reusable code (Build Program Techniques and Functional Programming Systems) and portable translation systems (Pascal P Code and other such works) across the last 3 decades. YUou may find that the ideas have already been promulgated: just not propagated and aapplied en amasse. End result: Rebuild the wheel every 4 weeks to four years, and Microsoft gas for a Microsoft carburetor in a Microsfot car with Microosfrt wheels (square, made of granite, and with your own personal hammer and chisel to round them off, ... every 18 mnoths or so)... Nothing new tothis: reusable and madular software, with paradigmatic softwar eabstarctions has been available since prior to Cajori (we called it Mathematics); BUT: salesmen and current consultants do not like code that resues. they canot charge for it again. APL _and_ J have resualbe software paradigmsd: look atthe J Dictionary and APL programming paradigms. However, we do nto have in the software INDUSTRY full toolkits from a rigorous engineering standpoint (and even engineering is loosing this). Long discussion ensues. More later, out of time. -- -- Roy A. Crabtree UNC '76 gaa.lifer#11086 336-340-1304 (office/home/cell/vmail; currently offline, email for time to call) [When you hear/read/see/feel what a yehudi plays/writes/sculpts/holds] [(n)either violinist {Menuhin} (n)or writer {"The Yehudi Principle"} (n)or molder (n)or older] [you must strive/think/look/sense all of it, or you will miss the meanings of it all] roy.crabtree-cmaem7PIVQS6v4K4bn9h4Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Forwards only to: roy.crabtree-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: auto to: 3363401304-jdSDcPZFiz+YLwXevFGzQBwHaTl2S5le@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Be short < 160 chars cuts off; currently offline crabtreeroya-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: auto to ^ http://www.authorsden.com/royacrabtree http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/activex/720/resume/full.doc -- (c) RAC/IP, ARE,PRO,PAST (Copyright) Roy Andrew Crabtree/In Perpetuity All Rights/Reserved Explicitly Public Reuse Only Profits Always Safe Traded |
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