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,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-19 22:54:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc54.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EF2A151.5020002@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C bug of the day References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <7gBHa.12174$KF1.273806@amstwist00> <7RQHa.3141$Uh2.339@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> <3EF293CC.7030105@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.62.164.137 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc54 1056088445 24.62.164.137 (Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:54:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:54:05 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:54:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39478 Date: 2003-06-20T05:54:05+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Sure, but it means that you're doing the work that MI would be > doing for you. And I guess our disagreement on that should be considered as personal preference. There are lots of programming "tricks" in Ada that can be encapsulated in a page or so of, often, a generic unit. I regard these programming exercises sort of like a pianist who uses tricky sections from various works as warm up exercises. I know that some days my brain is up to doing some quite complex coding work, and at other times any line of code I touch will result in a lot more work to unwind the changes I made--and the bugs I introduced. So there are some of these "exercises" that I have rewritten a dozen times or more. On a good day I can dash off these units about as fast as I can type, which is in the 35-40 WPM range. On a bad day, well ANY programming I did should be thrown away. It is the in between days that are judgement calls. Right now I have one nasty piece of coding/debugging that is waiting on a very good day. And it will continue to wait for the next day like that, because any effort I put in on an average day would be wasted.