“Marcel Gagné’s article (Linux Journal #65, September
1999) on French cooking inspired me to share some recipes of my
own. The cooking metaphor is not new to computing, as Donald
Knuth, in his forward to “Fundamental Algorithms” confesses he
almost used “Recipes for the Computer” as its title. Without
stirring the metaphor too vigorously, Gagné’s article gives
me the opportunity to share two items of interest and give them the
needed cooking flavor.”
“For some time, I’ve been concerned about what I regard are
overuse or misuse of two programming constructs:
- temporary variables and files, and
- nested logic and decisions.”