From: "Suzanne B. Zampella" <szampell@accessus.net>
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book
Date: 1996/11/26
Date: 1996-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <329BD3A1.1CD7@accessus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 577269$86o@felix.seas.gwu.edu
Michael Feldman wrote:
>
> In article <dewar.848712351@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >Mike says
>
> [snip]
>
> Sure they tend to copy what they see first, then they mature and start
> developing their own styles. There's nothing wrong with that - it teaches
> then to _think_ about developing a style (and NOT just lexical!) that is
> courteous to the reader.
OK, so teach them the importance of style by making them read and <oh,
no> manually trace large programs in different styles. That has much
more real world educational value than changing your style in creation.
I remember having 3 inches worth of compiler dumped on my desk with only
one "isn't this neat" comment next to a bubble sort! I valued comments
from that day.
> That's why I'm dismayed that, of all the important educational
> principles we could discuss here, we are wasting so much bandwidth on
> whether the keywords are uppercase or lowercase, for Heaven's sake!
Hear, Hear! THat's what pretty printers are for!
Suzanne Zampella
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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 ` Larry Kilgallen
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 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 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
1996-12-02 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
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Suzanne B. Zampella [this message]
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
1996-11-25 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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