From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
Date: 11 Oct 90 08:59:23 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1212:Oct1108:59:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 920035@hpclapd.HP.COM
In article <920035@hpclapd.HP.COM> defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria) writes:
> IMHO, you should be able to say: ada sourcefile and the
> compiler should look for "sourcefile" first and then "sourcefile.ada" next
The beauty of this system being that if sourcefile is ever removed
accidentally, you end up using sourcefile.ada even if it is entirely
different. This contributes greatly to bug concealment, unreliability,
and other software engineering techniques.
---Dan
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-09-28 20:25 File name conventions for Ada units SSUID Craig E Warsaw
1990-09-29 16:29 ` stt
1990-09-29 22:04 ` Dan Rittersdorf
1990-10-01 14:56 ` David Emery
1990-10-06 14:37 ` Rik Palo
1990-09-30 2:49 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-02 17:10 ` arny.b.engelson
1990-10-04 15:05 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-02 21:55 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-10-03 2:00 ` Alan Adamson
1990-10-03 17:00 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-10-04 9:37 ` Mike Harrison
1990-10-04 12:10 ` Robert Firth
1990-10-04 1:55 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-04 17:22 ` Brian Hanafee
1990-10-08 17:33 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-10-11 8:59 ` Dan Bernstein [this message]
1990-10-12 5:29 ` Andy DeFaria
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