Subj : Re: Flowchart software that supports top down development?
To   : comp.programming,microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion,microsoft.public.visio.developer
From : Scott Moore
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 01:10 pm

Phlip wrote:

> The flaw is you can't test the program and get perfect behavior until you
> code everything. (And the system you describe is _coding_, not designing or
> planning. If you get the flowchart wrong, the result will have bugs.
> 
> Writing bugs and detecting them a long time later is a very bad practice.
> 
> To learn the most modern technique to design, google for "Test-Driven
> Development". It will feel like the system you envision, but no bugs.
> 

So you are saying you would design a building by putting together each room
at a time, stacked one on the other, until you get a 20 story building.

Good thing there is nothing similar between the building trades and programming,
since designing buildings like that gives you a building that collapses of
its own weight!

Wait a minute.. maybe programming is like that.....

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