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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Best Way to Pass Info Between Objects?
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:46:43 -0500
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On 01/09/2012 06:06 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 12-01-09 01:39 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 01/09/2012 07:36 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>> Arved Sandstrom<asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>   writes:
>>>     TDD is not the only methodology,
>>
>> :)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_development_philosophies>
>>
>> :) "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."
>>
>
> I didn't make the comment you attributed to me, Stefan did. And in fact
> Stefan would be mis-quoted if you don't add his "where one writes the
> calls before one write the callee".
Yep, I did. I apologize for the misattribution.
I'm hoping Stefan will accept the misquote in the spirit in which it was 
misquoted.
>
> Stefan is right: it's quite common to use top-down coding in procedural
> languages especially. But TDD is neutral when it comes to "top-down" and
> "bottom-up"; one could just as easily be building bottom-up when using TDD.
>
> As far as software development *methodologies* go, as opposed to
> "philosophies", there aren't that many primary types, probably less than
> a dozen. Nobody's doing anything new, except for coining labels.
Great!
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_methodology>