Re: TIB: Back to TI-BASICs
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Re: TIB: Back to TI-BASICs
Tavis Segura wrote:
>
> I would like to ask each of you about your personal style of writing
> programs. If you had a choice to do both,
We do! :-)
> would you prefer writing
> everything in a single program, or have several programs for your
> subroutines?
It all depends on the program. The more complex the program, the more
likely I'll split it up.
> Which do you think game players would prefer?
I don't know, but hey, if they don't like it they can do it themselves.
:-)
> Which is more important, the program's size, its speed, how easy the
> program is to read, or how it affects the rest of the calc?
First and foremost: Efficiency!
If I can make the program a certain percentage faster by sacrificing a
lesser percentage of extra space taken, I'll do it.
I always make my programs easy to read. I indent when I use If's, For's,
you-know-the-drill, I use saying variable names, I sometimes use
comments (mostly if I know I might want to change something later), and
I happily sacrifice the extra byte here and there to make some room
between different parts of a program (read: I press return when I don't
have to :-)
You can take most of my programs and chop of a lot of space by using
smaller variable names, cutting comments, indents, etc, but the speed
will remain the same.
I also make a principle out of not messing with people's calcs (if I
change anything, the program will restore it when finished)
[...]
--
Rene Kragh Pedersen
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man: Why did you get a divorce?
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