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5 Sep 2024 01:24:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pretty cool stuff for professional programmers  
From: Darren New
Date: 10 Oct 2009 13:20:53
Message: <4ad0c275$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> The guys working on the GHC compiler do this. The compiler's source 
>> repository contains an entire directory full of code snippets.
> 
>   AFAIK the gcc project also has a gigantic set of automated tests, so
> that every new release is first run against it. Every time a legit bug
> is reported, a test triggering that bug is added to the set.

It's not hard to organize for big batch process type things with 
well-defined inputs and outputs. To the extent that you can turn difficult 
problems into collections of functional input->output streams, you can apply 
this to messier problems.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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