Re: Query about rating agencies/groups

Posted by Russ Abbott on Jul 30, 2010; 3:09am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Query-about-rating-agencies-groups-tp5350015p5353584.html

It's easy to say that  "Design (decomposition and distribution of knowledge and behavior), not programming language, is the real key - proper design makes the coding almost trivial. "

It's a lot harder to describe how to teach design. Furthermore, no matter how one teaches design, one will be using a language to express it. That language, whether actually executable or not, is a programming language. Furthermore, it matter which design constructs the language supports. If it doesn't support objects, or parallelism, or functions as first class entities, or constraints, or types, or logical declarations, or message passing, or any of anyone's other favorite architectural or design concepts, one will be very hard pressed to express a design that uses those concepts, and even harder pressed to teach those concepts to undergraduates.

In general, I don't believe that what one thinks is limited by the language one uses. But in software for most people, that probably is the case.

-- Russ

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Grant Holland <[hidden email]> wrote:

Design (decomposition and distribution of knowledge and behavior), not programming language, is the real key - proper design makes the coding almost trivial. 

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