Re: Methodologies for C programming

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Methodologies for C programming
Date	2018-12-07 18:05 +0100
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On 07/12/18 16:57, Thiago Adams wrote:
> On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:39:14 AM UTC-2, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 1:16:17 PM UTC, Thiago Adams wrote:
>>> Recently I became more interested in unity tests 
>>> and modularization.  I can say that the C language is partially 
>>> responsible for that.
>>>
>>> When we think in unit test, we also think in TDD, although 
>>> I think TDD does not exactly reflects the methodology I want 
>>> to use.
>>>
>>> The reason why C is the root of the interest is that when we 
>>> start using C we need to build a lot infrastructure to program.
>>>
>>> In C we need to build your own data types. Comparing with C++ 
>>> for instance, we have parametrized data types like vector and map 
>>> and other read-to-use types like string.
>>>
>>> Therefore, to avoid doing everything again and again we need to 
>>> think in modularization and reuse. Using C++ someone else is in 
>>> charge for testing the STL containers. Doing you own data types 
>>> we need to make sure everything is working and unit tests also 
>>> become very important.
>>>
>>> With methodologies do you use? 
>>> What do you think about TDD? 
>>> How to you reuse code?
>>>
>> I try to make a distinction between "this program only" and "many programs"
> 
> Something I need in almost all projects is a string builder
> data type.
> I am copy-pasting the code and generating an slightly 
> different version in each project.
> 

Frankly, if you need a lot of string use or string functions for a
particular piece of code, C is probably not the best language to use in
the first place.  C is a great language in its place - but it is not the
best choice for all programming tasks.

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Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 05:15 -0800
  Re: Methodologies for C programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 05:38 -0800
    Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 07:57 -0800
      Re: Methodologies for C programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-12-07 18:05 +0100
  Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 08:08 -0800
  Re: Methodologies for C programming William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> - 2018-12-07 10:08 -0800
    Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 10:23 -0800
  Re: Methodologies for C programming Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-12-07 22:04 +0100
  Re: Methodologies for C programming Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2018-12-08 10:46 +1300
    Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-08 02:27 -0800
      Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-08 10:35 -0800
        Re: Methodologies for C programming Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-12-09 08:22 +0000
  Re: Methodologies for C programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-09 14:40 -0800
  Re: Methodologies for C programming "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2018-12-27 13:17 +0100
    Re: Methodologies for C programming "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 08:12 -0500
    Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 07:54 -0800
      Re: Methodologies for C programming Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-27 11:32 -0500
      Re: Methodologies for C programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 09:22 -0800
  Re: Methodologies for C programming jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-12-27 19:54 +0100
    Re: Methodologies for C programming Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-27 17:54 -0500
      Re: Methodologies for C programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 16:24 -0800
        Re: Methodologies for C programming Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 17:57 -0800
        Re: Methodologies for C programming Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 17:58 -0800
          Re: Methodologies for C programming rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-27 21:34 -0700
            Re: Methodologies for C programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-12-27 21:27 -0800
              Re: Methodologies for C programming rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-28 08:30 -0700
                Re: Methodologies for C programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-12-28 12:15 -0800
                Re: Methodologies for C programming rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-28 20:42 -0700
                Re: Methodologies for C programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-12-29 09:26 -0800
                Re: Methodologies for C programming rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-29 13:50 -0700
  Re: Methodologies for C programming luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2018-12-30 12:39 -0800
    Re: Methodologies for C programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-30 14:00 -0800
      Re: Methodologies for C programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-30 14:18 -0800
    Re: Methodologies for C programming rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-30 16:48 -0700
      Re: Methodologies for C programming luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 00:06 -0800
        Re: Methodologies for C programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 02:34 -0800
        Re: Methodologies for C programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 05:13 -0800
        Re: Methodologies for C programming rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-31 12:44 -0700
      Re: Methodologies for C programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-01-01 16:01 -0800
      Re: Methodologies for C programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-01-01 16:23 -0800
    Re: Methodologies for C programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 05:08 -0800
      Re: Methodologies for C programming Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-12-31 17:32 +0000
        Re: Methodologies for C programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 14:13 -0800
  Re: Methodologies for C programming Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 02:48 -0800

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