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Re: [LUG] Clueless users



On Monday 10 May 2004 20:03, Mark Evans wrote:

I found the argument advnaced a while ago that while the tendency in
Linux was to modularise, separating functions so far as possible and
tending to be more replaceable, interchangeable and maintainable -

This is called "structured programming". It's the way most books
on programming say you should do it. Or at least it was 20 years ago.

<innocent look, or reasonable approximation thereof>
Isn't it called "object oriented programming" nowadays?

</innocence>


The converse of structured programming is known as "sphagetti code".
Oh I understand that, got lots of it.  But if you cover it in Open Sauce it is 
much more palatable.


-- 
Adrian Midgley                   (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/


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