Accountancy is an inexact science which may be a surprise to some of you. It seems obvious that figures should be manipulated acording to a precise set of rules and a provable result achieved. In practice this doesn't work as the "rules" can be interpreted in many ways on occasion. There is a similar story to programming whereby I am writing little utilities for this blog and that means I am using a windows machine, a unix machine and maybe 5 or 6 different packages at times. Regardless of any bugs or transient problems that may be present, what really screws life up is me. Yesterday's little problem was that I worked on one piece of code and a piece of code elsewhere stopped working. It took me an hour to fix it (avoid the problem) and then I slept. This morning it 2 minutes to discover the real cause - which was a single space. A single lousy space. Well, I haven't programmed in many years and I can see how things have really come on in the programming world - except in this example of course. Still, it remains immensely satisfying to me to write code so I shall persevere.
Posted by grahame at December 1, 2003 03:00 PM | TrackBackforget about spaces, how about a carrier return occasionally ? makes things a lot easier to read.
Posted by: funkypancake at December 1, 2003 10:24 PMIs that some sort of pidgin English?
Posted by: Grahame at December 2, 2003 08:13 AMthat's very clever !
Posted by: funkypancake at December 2, 2003 08:25 AM