Re: Ada micro Style for Programs in Introductory Textbooks

[aio!sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov!yow@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Bill Yow)]

My 2 cents:

I hate the LRM style.  All uppercase is just horrible in my opinion.  All upper
case is just ugly and is something I wrote with in the first grade.  All upper 
case is also harder to read.

I use all lower case for reserved words and mixed case for user defined identif
iers.

In article <1991Sep5.190551.8272@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, pattis@june.cs.wash
ington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes:
 popular Pascal books.

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|>   1) Ada's words (whether reserved words or predefined identifiers - see
|> point 2) should be easily identified; they are the landmarks to navigating
|> through programs.  The LRM uses bold-face, but that is not an option for
|> students who write programs using standard text editors. I want to present
|> code in the book using a style that the students can emulate in their
|> programs.  Upper-case words stand out best.
|> 

Why is it important for the reserved words to standout????  The last thing I
want to read is the reserved words when I am reading code!


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|>   Richard E. Pattis			"Programming languages are like
|>   Department of Computer Science	 pizzas - they come in only "too"
|>     and Engineering			 sizes: too big and too small."


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						Bill Yow
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