From: Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/26
Date: 1999-01-26T18:59:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36AE107A.28D0DBE6@magic.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78kmr7$tbt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> In article <78julr$nd8$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
> "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > The ultimate experience for the Ada programmer is to spend two days
> > getting the program through the compiler, but then it works like a
> > charm from the first run on.
>
> Eww. I hate seeing people put it this way, because it really isn't true. It
> usually only takes me a few minutes to placate the compiler (less if I take
> the intelligent approach and check things every few minutes with the compiler
> while I'm coding). But I almost always have a bug or two in any reasonablly
> complicated algorithm.
I fully agree with you. My point of view is that the level of
abstraction
of the language helps me foccusing on the algorithm and I don't spend
time
and energy thinking of arrays from 0 to N-1, strings of length N but
size N+1,
looking ant man pages for the order of memcpy and bcopy arguments...
(You guessed I program in C as well :-).
This applies when coding, debugging, re-reading, modifying the code, but
doesn't mean that the Ada code does not need to be commented.
On the other hand, the level of abstraction is not too high. I still can
have
the control of the size and performances of the program.
I still can have, if I want, a good idea about how my source is
translated to the
machine code.
I still can interface with C for signals, OS and X calls.
Ada is just the best compromise between abstraction an pragmatism.
--
Pascal MALAISE
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE [this message]
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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