Subj : Re: tools to build design of application
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 05:18 pm

CBFalconer wrote:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> Phlip wrote:
>> 
>>>     http://flea.sourceforge.net/TDD_in_a_nut_shell.pdf
>> 
>> I am interested in reading more about TDD. Do you have the above
>> document available in a more portable format, e.g. text or HTML?
> 
>   <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/> the combination of gsview
> and ghostscript can handle pdf files anywhere, and can often
> convert them to more palatable formats.

He's the TDD evangelist, not me. He has gained my interest. If he wishes to 
keep that interest, he will no doubt be prepared to go the extra mile and 
provide the information in a format that is palatable to start with. And if 
not, well, it's no skin off my nose. TDD isn't /that/ interesting. :-)


For the record, the objections I have to PDF are two-fold:

(1) the Dmitri Sklyarov case still rankles - Adobe were directly responsible 
for the USA imprisoning him despite the fact that the software he developed 
was written in Russia for a Russian software house and legal under Russian 
law.
(2) the file format is a nuisance because I can't use an ordinary text 
editor to view it. HTML may be full of tags, but at least it /can/ be read, 
searched, filtered, etc.

I don't produce PDFs, and see no reason why I should consume them either. 
(The ISO C Standard is an annoyingly useful exception to this general rule 
of thumb.)

-- 
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
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mail: rjh at above domain

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