Is Maxima modular?...(and/or How learn source code?...)
Subject: Is Maxima modular?...(and/or How learn source code?...)
From: seberino at spawar
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:56:43 -0800
C Y pointed me to Maxima roadmap which shows
that goals of development team
include:
1. cleaning up docs
2. new and better comments
3. new directory structure
To do all this one must /understand/ code
at least in a general sense.....
Is the current code at least *MODULAR*
with different parts *ENCAPSULATED*????
It would be really great to be able to
treat whole parts of code as "black boxes"
with well defined interfaces while one focused
on another part.
Or.... is it a global variable jungle???
How did current developers get a general
handle on source code????
( just reading maxima-5.9.0/src files cold turkey?? )
Chris
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