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Re: The magical number seven

From "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: The magical number seven
Date 2014-10-22 02:21 -0400
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:47:33 -0400, Elizabeth D. Rather  
<erather@forth.com> wrote:

> To me, "slash and burn" just means throwing code at a problem without  
> careful thought and design.

Some problems may be too difficult to comprehend or easily quantify.
In that case, "shotgunning" can be very effective in narrowing
the scope of the problem to something manageable, solveable,
or identifiable.  It's especially useful in debugging.


Rod Pemberton

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  Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 18:18 +0200
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  Re: Tiny regular expressions code mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2014-10-13 22:59 +0200
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          Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 18:53 +0200
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                Re: Tiny regular expressions code Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-19 21:14 +0200
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                Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-19 19:59 +0200
          Re: Tiny regular expressions code Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-19 09:31 -0500
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                Re: The magical number seven Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-10-21 08:56 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-21 11:44 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Just Ian <superian@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 07:06 -0700
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2014-10-21 20:11 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:27 -0500
              Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-20 17:28 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-10-20 16:25 +0000
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-10-20 16:36 -0400
                Re: The magical number seven "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-10-20 12:19 -1000
                Re: The magical number seven "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-10-21 01:47 -0400
                Re: The magical number seven "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-10-20 20:31 -1000
                Re: The magical number seven albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-10-21 09:06 +0000
                Re: The magical number seven "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-10-21 08:47 -1000
                Re: The magical number seven "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-10-22 02:21 -0400
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 10:29 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-21 11:34 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:41 -0500
                Re: The magical number seven Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-26 12:07 +0100
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 13:58 -0500
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-10-20 16:34 -0700
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:33 -0500
                Re: The magical number seven Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-26 12:12 +0100
              Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:24 -0500
          Re: Tiny regular expressions code mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2014-10-19 17:10 +0200
      Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 16:02 +0200
        Re: Tiny regular expressions code josv@planet.nl - 2014-10-18 07:50 -0700
  Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 17:27 +0200
  Re: Tiny regular expressions code the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-11-08 19:24 -0800
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