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Presentation Style

Posted by John Bergeron on 22 Mar 1998, 4:31 AM

> Harry,

> Thanks for your comment.

> > The basics you have eloquently described are
> > frequently ignored, even by "experienced"
> > programmers. I hope that many of them read
> > your article/book.

> > I also hope that you wax equally eloquent on other
> > common programming mistakes (mistyles?). One
> > that I have seen recently is pushing application-
> > specific stuff into generic, reusable classes --
> > making them no longer generic or reusable.
> >
> Yes! I am planning to talk about this. I have gotten
> several comments that basically said my example
> code would be better if it were more generic, so
> I want to talk about when to solve the specific
> problem versus the general problem. My thought is
> that you should always lean towards solving the
> specific problem, unless your product is
> a library or component that is supposed to solve
> a generic problem for other programmers.

> bv