A program is never finished…


Friday, March 5, 2010 at 3:55 pm

Tidying up continues.  It’s a known feature of programming that a program can always be ‘improved’: one of the reasons for imposing deadlines on programmers is to make sure that they don’t continue ‘improving’ the program forever.

MOPS is suffering from this, a little; although the revised code is stable, the opportunity couldn’t be missed to also tidy up the code a little more.  Will the time taken in ‘improving’ the code be offset by a reduction in time later?  Don’t know.

It’s expected to take a further two weeks before new code is being cut again.  On a more positive note, the project completion date probably hasn’t slipped very much.  Once development is rolling again, a revised schedule will be issued.

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2 Comments on “A program is never finished…”

  1. Mark Stoube
    on March 7th, 2010 at 4:52 PM

    I was looking on the ‘net for a waybill/traffice generating system and stumbled on your site. This looks promising, but I’m unclear about how operations actually get started. I’ve setup my ‘stax’,but I don’t see any method for entering car or loco data and it is also unclear how traffic actually is generated.

    Can you illuminate me?

    Thanks!

  2. admin
    on March 11th, 2010 at 5:36 PM

    The system’s still being completed: the car and loco modules are being rebuilt at the moment following an issue with data corruption in a heavy multi-user environment. After the car and loco modules have been re-written, the industry and timetable modules will be provided.

    Traffic itself won’t be generated; instead, industry will make ‘demands’ on the railroad for empty cars to be made available for loading, and waybills will be created to have loaded cars moved to their destination. The information about how everything fits together can be seen on the Design page.

    This site will be updated with progress on a regular basis.