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: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Bob Munck) Subject: Re: Draconian coding standards (was: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <36a4c9f4.304346937@news.mindspring.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434485633 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77q4p7$diu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vk87$pv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises X-Server-Date: 19 Jan 1999 18:20:55 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java Date: 1999-01-19T18:20:55+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:33:27 GMT, dennison@telepath.com wrote: >The point is to get all the code readable by anyone with a minimum of effort, >not to send individualistic developers off to Dhakow. ... Jeez, in these days of modern times, why are we worrying about doing manual formatting in any given way? Just store the source in some internal or cannonical form, retrieve it with XML markup (say through ASIS if it's Ada), and have your editor use a good browser to do its display. Each programmer can have a personal DFD that displays the code in the format that they prefer. (Plus you have all of the hypertext facilities of the browser to make code editing and reading easier, such as popping up the definition of a variable when the mouse is over it.) I'll bet you could do an ok editor in a couple of hundred lines of JavaScript using this approach. Or, of course, write it in Ada and compile to the Java VM. Bob Munck Mill Creek Systems LC