From: Gautier <Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH>
To: bill <bill@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: What is ADA?
Date: 1999/02/23
Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36D2DFEE.B0833C02@Maths.UniNe.CH> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7auet2$qu5@drn.newsguy.com
> speaking of large programs.
> I heared that when the goverment used to pay contractors for
> code by how counting how many lines of code, a paying some fee
> per/line, that people used to write large amount of dead code
> which does nothing but increase the size of the program, as in:
> if( false )
> x:= 1;
> y:=2;
> x:=y;
> y:=2;
> else
> -- ok, do real work now, we earned enough goverment money allready :)
> end if
> btw, notice that in Java, the above is not possible. Java does not
> allow code that can't be reached from being compiled. (which can
> sometimes be annoying actually).
You could add useless code in reachable code:
x:= 1 * x +
0 * (
y + 2 +
z );
A real case: a programmer team had to put every constant into a common file
in order (surely) to keep common data dimensions etc. What did the people do
to avoid updates or just to make a quick hack ? 1+1+1+1+1 for 5 etc. !
--
Gautier
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-22 0:00 What is ADA? Corvus
1999-02-21 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Corvus
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-23 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier [this message]
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
[not found] ` <36d52fe9.8491568@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-02-26 0:00 ` David Botton
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1997-05-10 0:00 David Chang
1997-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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