Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 02/10/2024 18:29, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-02, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

In practice I work both ends to the middle. Write what is obvious in
spec or code first, and then see what problems remain unsolved.....

 Stan Kelly-Bootle, when contrasting top-down and bottom-up development,
proposed the opposite of your method.  He called it "middle-out".
 

Well whatever rocks his boat. I am not peddling a design philosophy, juts saying what worked for me.
My way stems from the fact that at the bottom, you know how the hardware works, or whatever interfaces you have, and at the top you know what you are trying to  achieve, and the unknown is connecting the two bits together
So by writing the top and the bottom, you get closer to a specification for the middle
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