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> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Behalf Of Campbell, Robert D (SELEX) (UK Edinburgh)
> Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2005 5:37 PM
> To: BlackBox Mailing List
> Subject: [BlackBox] - GOTOs
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> But I did finally come up with a general purpose technique
> that, I guess, could be automated. It does nothing to make
> the code comprehensible, it has no pretensions to efficiency,
> but it did allow me to produce a useful outcome. (I don't use
> it often, but by coincidence I used it yesterday, and once in
> February!)
Ingenious! However, this approach would really have to be a very last,
desperate, resort.
How are you able to have any trust in the results of a program that is
so incomprehensible?
>
> To complete the circle of this correspondence this algorithm
> (Remez) is discussed in Numerical Recipes. The authors
> acknowledge that the results are 'Optimum', but they do not
> like or include it because it is too complicated to code.
> They advocate a different simpler approach whose results are
> 'nearly as good' (which means 'not as good'!).
>
A quick Google search revealed an alternative implementation (?) of the
Remez Algorithm in C. I might be on the wrong track altogether. Knowing
absolutely nothing at all about the underlying theory I'm unable to
judge whether or not this is a solution to the same problem, or whether
it has any use.
However, this one I was able to read and have some confidence that I
would be able to debug it if necessary:
http://www.janovetz.com/jake/remez/remez-19980711.zip
It would not be too difficult to translate it into Oberon / CP.
Hmmm ... maybe a C to Oberon translator should be the next project ...
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
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