From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/26
Date: 1999-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk
John McCabe wrote in message <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk>...
>"Michael Garrett" <michaelgarrett@csi.com> wrote:
>
>>I am just learning Ada, and it is frustrating sometimes to realize that I
>>can not just sit down and code something, even to try it out.
>
>I can't understand where you got that idea from. I find with Ada I can
>just sit down and code something, and most times, if the language
>allows what I've written, what the compiler produces does what I want.
>
>I could never say that about using C.
My experience in learning Ada is the same as Michael's -- Ada will not
tolerate off-the-cuff programming, where you're only thinking a few lines or
a few functions ahead. I come from 'C', a language that is always beguiling
you with "well, you probably shouldn't do that, but -I'll- never tell". As
hard as you try to be disciplined in such a language, it's easy to slip in a
little implicit conversion here, do a quick-and-dirty cast there, toss in a
few #defines, and at the end of the day you feel like you've written code
that already could stand a little cleanup, only that hardly ever happens.
Ada, OTOH, is constantly rapping my knuckles, which annoys me at the time,
but when I'm done I'm much less likely to have code that has that "look at
this again later" feel to it. Of course, as I get better at Ada's explicit
and implicit rules the knuckle-rapping will diminish, but that
code-done-right feeling will still be there. This is one of the main
reasons I set out to learn Ada, and I'm already seeing the benefits, but
along with the newfound rewards I'm also still feeling the aches and pains
of my new programming exercise regimen.
Mike
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1999-03-10 0:00 The future of Ada Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-03-12 0:00 ` vershokv
1999-03-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Mike Silva [this message]
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-27 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-03-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-03-29 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-31 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Stephen Thomas
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-03-31 0:00 ` west
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-04-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-02 0:00 ` kewick
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-03 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-04-16 0:00 ` s.shering
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Gunther Dragoski
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Olivier Devuns
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-11 0:00 ` kirk
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12 0:00 ` steve
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Mark D. McKinney
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-26 0:00 ` R. Rabeau
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
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1990-08-15 23:05 ` Michael Endrizzi
1990-08-15 15:19 Michael Endrizzi
1990-08-15 17:52 ` Jerry Callen
1990-08-17 17:21 ` Steve Vestal
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