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Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over

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On 2025-10-31 23:45, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2025-10-31, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:52:14 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
>>
>>> I have seen many imposed on us and I ignored all of them. The only one I
>>> thought was kind of useful was "structured",
>>> which came around where I worked in the early 80s.
>>
>> Yeah, back then you had to swear loyalty to top down structured
>> programming although like the rest of the methodologies it seldom was
>> implemented in a pure fashion.
> 
> I thought of it as a fad - a potentially useful one, but one that
> was often abused.  The number of function calls in a program became
> a figure of merit, and programs turned into a huge pile of tiny
> functions bound together by an impenetrable web of nested calls.
> I proclaimed it as the final triumph of bureaucracy: its success
> at finally penetrating the world of programming.

I did software that controlled machines. I did it in layers: a layer 
would be functions that talked to the i/o card, then layers that would 
do things with that, each layer more complex. Each layer being calls to 
the next layer under it, very easy to understand. Many functions, yes.

So, a speed_motor_up_to_1000_rpm_for_1_minute() would call 
speed_motor_up_to_n_rpm, this to set_output_x_to_y_volts(), 
read_motor_speed() and wait_1_minute().

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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