Watt's Up Musings of an original geek

Some of the work I’m doing is to migrate capability that is currently written in C/C++ over to Java. To insure that we’re doing it right we need to exercise the C/C++ code. However this code is a very large system so we need to pare it down to just a subset. Yesterday a co-worker and I started cutting out a piece of the C/C++ system. This required us to copy function by function into a new source file while minimizing the number of tenticles or strings of references to the overall system. We started in the afternoon, then took a break for dinner. We were going to continue on Monday, but I was stoked and kept working on it until midnight. This morning I woke, did my exercise (13 mile long run for class), and then went back to it. Now it compiles and runs and is only about 3000 lines of a 150,000 lines system. This should help my co-worker develop the equivalent subset in Java. The source can be used to understand how the capability is implemented, and the executable can be used for comparison during testing. Finally I need to understand it to be able to write a design document on what we’re planning to do.