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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1c1a139977eee854 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-20 14:26:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC1DD85.8030600@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case statement and Integers. References: <3CC1A135.7020505@bellatlantic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:26:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1019338014 68.12.51.201 (Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:26:54 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:26:54 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22836 Date: 2002-04-20T21:26:54+00:00 List-Id: Wannabe h4x0r wrote: > Not me. No way. I gotta be different. I have this irresistable urge to > zig while everyone else in the course zags.(Been pretty successful so Which is great, as long as you don't zig straight into a concrete pylon. :-) > thought of before. Using an if..else statement wouldn't be original. Heh. Comming up with creative solutions to complex problems is what computer science is all about. Your creativity is what is going to bail you out of a millon problems in the future. So there's nothing wrong with being original, just do it for the right reasons. Often times there's a good reason everyone is doing it a certian way. So if your "original" solution is more work and less easy to follow (and for you to get working), you should probably give the boring approach another look. :-)