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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-03 22:03:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C830F08.9020104@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020303 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 06:03:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.250.232 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1015221812 162.83.250.232 (Mon, 04 Mar 2002 01:03:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 01:03:32 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20747 Date: 2002-03-04T06:03:32+00:00 List-Id: Eric Merritt wrote: > The less readably their code (in any language not just Ada) > and the more often 'clever' occur the more likely it is that > they are cube monkeys. To continue torturing analogies, you can build housing projects or you can build skyscrapers. Any one who looks at a housing project can immediately discern its purpose. With only a little bit of counting, they can probably calculate how many units the project holds. And after a while, they become unbearable to look at and to live in. Compare it to modern steel and glass skyscrapers with their enormous atriums and surprising and playful architectures.