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From: "Suzanne B. Zampella" <szampell@accessus.net>
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book
Date: 1996/11/26
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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