Thread: Manage, Maintain, Organize

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    Ugly C Lover audinue's Avatar
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    Manage, Maintain, Organize

    Once I wrote several Use Case names, I got confused.

    What is the differencies between Manage, Maintain, and Organize?

    Manage Customer Information?
    Maintain Customer Information?
    Organize Customer Information?
    Just GET it OFF out my mind!!

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    "manage" and "organize" could mean roughly the same thing, but manage might refer more to changing a set of values, where as organize might mean sorting them.

    "maintain" could refer to either of the above, but it would never refer to entering data the first time, only to managing or organizing it later on (whereas manage and organize could both refer to initializing a new set of customer information).
    C programming resources:
    GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
    The C Book -- nice online learner guide
    Current ISO draft standard
    CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
    3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
    cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge

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    Quote Originally Posted by audinue View Post
    Once I wrote several Use Case names, I got confused.

    What is the differencies between Manage, Maintain, and Organize?

    Manage Customer Information?
    Maintain Customer Information?
    Organize Customer Information?
    Manage means you take the credit for someone else's work.
    Maintain means you do the work.
    Organize means you tell the people to do the work, but someone else gets credit.

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