Thoughts from an outsider

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 2 09:25:11 UTC 2006


I was talking about all why's (and hows).  If you ever hope
to hand off your project to someone else those design
level why's are going to have to be there.  If you want the average
person to use it those how's are going to have to be there and some
why's as well because they may want to use your classes slightly
different then you originally envisioned.


>From: "Hiren Thacker" <hithacker at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Thoughts from an outsider
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:03:54 +0530
>
>On 8/31/06, Benjamin Pollack <benjamin.pollack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>On 8/30/06, Hiren Thacker <hithacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Even if you coded right in pure English, I still wouldn't
>> > know *why* you did it the way you did, and therefore I
>> > wouldn't know *why* I shouldn't just change it.
>>
>actually many seniour Squeakers r thr always on #squeak at
>irc.freenode.netor asking on mailing-list also get very quick reply
>> > usually.So i think we can ask, to author or anyone who knows, about
>> > *why* you did it the way you did usually.
>> >
>>
>>Hiren proposes you simply email the list whenever you have a why. That's a
>>waste of everyone's time. The developer has to explain more than once, 
>>while
>>users who subscribe to the list have to either preemptively save and
>>categorize important emails or else try to remember enough words from the
>>email that they can google their way to it--and frequently, they give up 
>>and
>>ask again anyway. New users, meanwhile, are too scared to ask questions on
>>squeak-dev, which is where you'd have to ask if you really wanted the
>>original coder to respond with a because instead of a more experienced
>>user to respond with a how-to.
>>
>
>Benjamin,
>I think you are taking my english in wrong context.I think JJ was talking
>about "Design level Whys" if you read his that post, which i 
>replied."Design
>level Whys" are not important for everyone using it.You should try to solve
>your doubts first by excersing own mind, its not necessary to ask for
>whenever u have a why.
>
>Regards,
>Hiren
>Hiren


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