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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: <36A045FF.EBA4370@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433258766 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CBD05.79D0@telusplanet.net> <369CBDA8.D3673C68@pwfl.com> <77np3q$e6h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news7.ispnews.com 916472644 206.103.35.44 (Sat, 16 Jan 1999 02:44:04 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 02:44:04 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java Date: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Michael J. Tobler" wrote: > > programs. You can create a mess in any language. COBOL doesnt force > you to write "well-written" applications. Or more maintainable code. > But by some surprising coincidence, a certain COBOL compiler did go to some lengths, perhaps unintentionally, to promote the coding style that Robert Dewar has recently advocated in this thread. It would mis-compile code if the IF-THEN-ELSE structures were nested too deeply. Al