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Re: include

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: include
Date 2011-12-14 09:12 +1300
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On 12/14/11 09:03 AM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
> On 13/12/2011 19:45, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 12/14/11 07:47 AM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
>>>
>>> Having a single TU (main.cpp) that contains all of a program's "main
>>> algorithms" sounds so wrong that if you were to weigh the wrongness it
>>> would be off the scale. Group by functionality not by whether something
>>> is considered "main" or not. What the hell is a "main algorithm" any way?
>>>
>>> Professionally written software tends to employ decomposition resulting
>>> in more rather than less TUs.
>>
>> You'd be surprised how much "professionally written software" uses one
>> file for all. One OS I work with has a single file for most command line
>> utilities. The one I was working on last week has almost 10,000 lines!
>
> Advocating more rather than less TUs it not the same as advocating that
> TUs must be small.


These utility files all include their main() function.  That was my 
point:  "professionally written software" is often written with 
everything in one source file.

-- 
Ian Collins

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