From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T01:37:08+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

Brett H. Williams wrote:

>On Aug  7, Dave Thomas wrote:
>  
>
>>Design? Where's the productivity is design? You're only working when 
>>you're typing, so the more you do, the harder you're working.
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>>
>
>Yikes!  Maybe you can define working harder as more typing, but I don't see
>that as productivity!
>
>Design leads to productivity because you don't have to retype things you
>didn't plan carefully.
>  
>

Why do you have to retype things you didn't design properly? It sounds 
to me as if you're making the basic mistake of programming: you must be 
trying to run the code you write.


Dave

(drop even the smallest amount of bait into a big enough pond... :)