- From: Graham Klyne <GK@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 20:14:35 +0000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
At 03:36 05/03/98 -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >[...] However, I cannot believe that the right >solution is to specify it in unreadable pseudocode -- at least choose >a language with structure. It is in fact far less readable than the >actual code from Apache (and I know that the code works). I find decision tables are a useful way to analyse such problems. (My reference is over 25 years old: "Programs from Decision Tables", E. Humbey, Macdonald/American Elsevier computer monographs, ISBN 0-444-19569-6/0-356-04126-3. It's probably not still in print. It does contain a number of references to decision table articles published in the 1960s in Commications of the ACM: August 1967, September 1970, January 1966, November 1966, October 1968, January 1965, February 1964, June 1970, November 1965, June 1965, February 1971. All of these pre-date even my library of "Communications". Strangely, I'm not aware of any more recent references.) GK. --- ------------ Graham Klyne
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