How does a newbie get past the feeling thay he is trying to
understand an elephant whilst looking through a keyhole?
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sun Apr 30 16:51:48 UTC 2006
Hi Steve,
on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:53:06 +0200, you wrote:
> ...
> I was thinking a bit more as to why I feel at sea. In the traditional
> scene of static programs - lets say I'm looking at program.tcl, or
> program.mod, program.pas, program.rb etc etc - In a language that I'm
> not familiar with. I know what the program is supposed to do,
> Comments in the code or my common sense and general experience of
> programming will give me a framework in which I can see what's going
> on. The "domain space" is smaller, and the "solution space" is maybe
> a few thousand lines of source code.
>
Just out of curiosity: if you fileOut the code of a Squeak class and
view/edit that file in your favorite text editor ("string" editor), would
you feel less "at sea"?
/Klaus
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