<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">cyclomatic conplexity<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
the UNIX philosophy<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">modularity<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
plenty of other reasons to break a big task into small ones<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:29 AM, leam hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Any supporting ideas for pushing the argument of "Use lots of small scripts for a big task, instead of one large one"?<br><br></div>So far my thoughts are:<br><br><br></div><div>Isolation of new, untested functionality<br>
</div><div>Ease of use when only one part of the task is required<br></div><div>Easier to introduce new programmers <br></div><div>Ease of maintenance since you don't have to look past one screen<br><br></div><div>Anything else?<br>
<br></div><div>Thanks!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Leam<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div>
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