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Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Episodes and segments
Episodes usually have a running order. In a news programmes these might be individual new stories, in a music programme the tracks played, in a football programme the matches covered. In PIPs the running order is modelled as a set of segments hanging off an episode version…
Episodes and clips
Finally clips. Clips were a later addition to the PIPs model and describing them is hard. Importantly they are not (as the name might suggest) necessarily bits clipped from full length episodes. Although they might be. They might also be a trailer for an episode, a trailer for…
Epigrams On Programming
Understand the program, then delegate it
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Programs worth writing need loops
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Low level programming languages
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Things no language can say well
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
A program as an abstract artifact
Consider now a program, constituted by a certain code. Let us observe first that this is not a physical object, as it lacks a location in space. So, in pace with Irmak, we take a program to be a particular kind of abstract artifact. On one hand, it behaves like a type (or…
A program is constituted by code
Since code and program differ in their essential properties (programs are necessari- ly artifacts and possess essential proper functions; codes are not necessarily artifacts), we have to conclude that a program is not identical to a code. However, if program and code are…
Code is not necessarily an artifact
In the light of these observations, a code is not necessarily an artifact. If we acci- dentally delete a line of code, the result might still be a computer code. It will not, however, be “intentionally made to serve a given purpose”. Moreover, we can clearly conceive the…
A program is not its code, process or algorithm
we agree with Irmak that we cannot identify a program either with a code, a process, or an algorithm. The reason is that this view conflicts with common sense, since the same program usually consists of different codes at different times, as a result of updates4. What these…
Eden and Turner: program-script and program-process
In their ontology of computer programs [7], Eden and Turner focus on the differ- ence between code and process, which they understand as two main sub-categories of program, namely program-script and program-process. For them, the term ‘program’ is therefore polysomic: a…