On 2014-03-27 03:06, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 03/25/2014 11:48 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:33 25/03/2014 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
As a person who learned to type on a typewriter and learned
programming on a mainframe computer [since the PC did not exist at
that time], I have not learned how to do "styles". Never really
needed it, as far as I was concerned.
Your history as a programmer is relevant - but leads me to an
opposite conclusion. Surely in programming a computer, you quickly
learned that when you needed substantially similar logic at more than
one place in a piece of software, the reliable and maintainable
technique was to separate that part of the code and to write it once
as a separate routine, invoked from as many places as necessary.
Styles are just the same: you get them right once and use them as
often as you need. You don't fall into the trap of having many
identical occurrences of something but with one or two - in error -
different (though you didn't notice). When you inevitably need to
make changes to your arrangements, you make them in one place and can
be confident that they will be instantly applied everywhere appropriate.
Brian Barker
Your coding statement[s] seem to suggest Object Orientated
Programming. Well they did not have that type of programming in any
of the mainframe languages I learned or used. OOP was a new thing
when I went for my last degree in programing and had only one brief
section of a class about it. Now that OOP is more of the standard,
people may not remember that "us older and/or mainframe programmers"
were not exposed to OOP in our education and working environments,
unless we brought it into work and tried to get our boss to except
that new and "radical" technology.
Sure, as a programmer, I wrote procedures, functions, and routines,
that I would then "make fit" into the new work, but the only time we
"called" a "sub-program" was when we has a main program and we called
complete programs and not "objects". Most people I worked under
wanted every single program to be self contained. That way there was
no accidents with these "funny new objects getting lost or deleted".
Times are very different now. The last big company I worked at still
used the old IBM mainframe tech, even though Windows servers were out
and being used by a lot of companies. Just before I left, they bought
a rack of IBM servers to deal with some of the newer data
communications between factories.
SO, you might guess that I had not been exposed with OOP till I
started to play with C++ in my "forced retirement" from my work
related injuries and several strokes.
I know the theory, but I have not the experience of a programmer who
grew up using OOP in their daily life.
Of course, I do use CSS in my web site designing, but I have not done
much since my back/neck/shoulder injuries got worse. I decided to
spend most of my PC time with LO support and "enhancement projects" -
i.e. 797K word dictionary, and the new expended color palette options
porject.
This is an interesting discussion and possibly useful to the UX team.
There seems to be usage methods that are each the obvious (to the
participant) route to take. Even when programming in assembly I favoured
reusable code and jumps. Smaller code and easier maintenance, but may be
that is just the way I look at things.
Steve
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- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood (continued)
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Doug Essinger-Hileman
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Virgil Arrington
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Brian Barker
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Jean-Francois Nifenecker
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Kracked_P_P---webmaster
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Brian Barker
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Steve Edmonds
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Kracked_P_P---webmaster
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Virgil Arrington
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Wolfgang Keller
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood · Tom Davies
Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document · Brian Barker
Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document · Dale Erwin
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