From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book
Date: 1996/11/23
Date: 1996-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Nov23.082018.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.848712351@merv
In article <dewar.848712351@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Students should NOT be encouraged to think that figuring out your own
> style is a normal and reasonable activity, on the contrary, they should
> learn that in the real world, an external style is imposed and you
> have to follow it. Encouraging this kind of individuality to me is
> inconsistent with good engineering practice. It would be like telling
> chemistry students in the lab to develop their own distinctive styles
> of doing experiments.
If students do not experiment with styles, they will be ill-prepared to
contribute to the style discussion when a group such as that which wrote
GNAT chooses a style (as described many bytes ago in this newsgroup).
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-18 0:00 Looking for a good Ada 95 book Ray Toal
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Suzanne B. Zampella
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Jim Carr
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Teaching Team/Maintenance Programming (was: Looking for a good book) Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Looking for a good Ada 95 book Laurent Gasser
1996-12-02 0:00 ` John English
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Debora Weber-Wulff
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-23 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-24 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-11-24 0:00 ` S. McLain
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-26 0:00 ` S. McLain
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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