Efficient python programming...

[Emile van Sebille]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3D00ABB6.6FAFD567 at engcorp.com...
> Emile van Sebille wrote:
> >
> > Peter Hansen
> > > You forgot the even more important first thing for a beginner:
> > > get it correct!  The only good way to do this is to write unit
> > > tests that prove it.  If you don't have tests, you don't have
> > > working code (or how can you prove it?).
> >
> > We always used absence of bug reports as a gauge... and always
> > questioned if that indicated usage or correctness.  ;-)
>
> For those who are serious when they say that, it's all well
> and good if you can get your customer to test the code for
> you.... ;-)
>

Even better, as most of the time they're not sure what they asked for in
the first place, blurring the line separating implementation error and
user specification error.  ;-))

(we really did think like that then -- for some set of we that includes
me anyway)

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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