From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1c8aeba24bc53c7b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: George Haddad Subject: Request for Ada Coding Standards Date: 1997/08/15 Message-ID: <33F4DFFA.7909@lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 265065566 Organization: Lockheed Martin M & S, Sunnyvale, CA Reply-To: george.haddad@lmco.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I have been given the (un)enviable task of trying to put together coding standards for a project. Actually, I have been asked to discover/create a consensus on coding standards which can then be used as inputs to the _actual_ author(s) of the standard. After sitting down my herd of "rugged individualists" with some copies of the SPC's Ada Quality and Style Guide (AQS), it became apparent that although some people agree on some issues, there is not even _one_ guideline with which everyone agrees! One "problem" is that the AQS includes "guidelines" which actually constitute design standards or design advice -- and frequently darn good advice at that :-) -- intermixed with rigid, enforceable coding _standards_. (Or generic templates for same, e.g. "There shall be no more than X characters per physical line of source code. You pick X.") What we would like to try next is to present the "rugged individualists" with an existing, publicly available standard consisting as much as possible of only the rigid, enforceable types or requirements which some other project has found useful and let said individualists vote "yea" or "nay" on concrete examples. SO, to cut to the chase, is there anyone out there willing to send me (via e-mail or URL) publicly available coding standards from their (hopefully successful) projects. I know that Prof. Dewar has said that ACT has well-defined coding standards for GNAT. Are those available to the public without charge, or treated as competitively-valuable information? Anyone else? Thanks in advance. ***************************************************************** I found these opinions on my doorstep, would you please give them a good home?