[LCP] creating a file descriptor entry for a piece of memory
Mike or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
Mon Nov 10 23:26:06 EST 2008
David Nugent wrote:
>Since I don't know what problem you're trying to solve, I can't offer
>any useful advice there. It just seems that you seem more stuck on the
>implementation details than focusing on the problem you're trying to
>solve.
>
>What advice I will offer, though, is not to implement an idea because
>that's how you think it should be done. Instead, look around at how
>others others have solved the same or similar problems and learn to
>recognise and understand the underlying /design pattern/ involved and
>how well it provides the solution to that class of problem, which will
>allow you to take advantage of possibly years of experience, trial and
>error. You can learn a lot very quickly this way instead of being
>caught up in the intricacies of implementing something you don't quite
>understand.
>
>This is not to say that your approach is wrong, but at least you could
>avoid uselessly reinventing a wheel where an already known and trusted
>wheel will work just fine. The art of computer programming often comes
>down to recognising where and when to apply existing and well known
>design patterns.
>
>
>
Here, here!
Michael D. Novack, FLMI
(a retired senior systems analyst with a few decades and a few hundred
thousand lines of code experience in the cypher mines)
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There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave.
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