Re: Auditing Programmers(and the REAL purpose of the compiler)

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

WOW - THAT sounds slick (and VERY useful !!!!).

The BIGGER the program that harder/time consuming it can be to sometimes find 
and
fix multiple errors when they involve typos... You can always try scan and
replace but this sounds MUCH better and more automatic !

Chuck

"Martin, Booth" wrote:

> You'll love Code/400 then because it provides a nice little window with the
> errors.  You click on an error in the error listing, it takes you to the
> correct line in your program, you make the correction, the error listing now
> has a nice checkmark beside it, and also the other error items that that
> correction fixed now have checkmarks too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 2:44 PM
> To: boothm@goddard.edu
> Subject: RE: Auditing Programmers(and the REAL purpose of the compiler)
>
> I must be in the minority.  I think the compiler is a very good spell
> checker, much better than I am.  My typing speed is mediocre, my accuracy is
> abysmal, and my attention span for tasks like checking for typos is very
> short. I'd rather have the compiler find my typos than look for them myself.
> It's pretty fast and hasn't _yet_ been shown to be innacurate.
>
> So far I haven't found a way to automate logic checking.  <g>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:59 AM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: Auditing Programmers
> >
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > That's what the compiler is for!  <BG>  Compile, fix 7030s,
> > compile, fix the
> > rest.  hehehe... then debug.  Or ship it...  ;)
> >
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVS/Tools
> > http://www.bvstools.com
> >
> >
> >
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