23rd November 2006, 09:58 pm
13th November 2006, 02:16 pm
The initial version of lists is now in mist. Using the frame work put in place for arrays it quite literally took about 4 hours. Most of that was in non thinking test writing kind of stuff. The sort of code you want to be writing late at night when the brain power is ebbing.
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8th November 2006, 03:51 pm
One idea in programming, particularly in exploratory (prototype) or when time is limited is to do the minimal amount of coding to get the job done. This has been enshrined into the extreme programming religion and made popular once again. Mist does not have any tight deadlines and isn’t really in the realms of prototyping even if some of the algorithms, like garbage collection, are new to me.
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