Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

And the odds are they were wishing they could go back to Fortran where 
they would be forced to recompile the world to make sure it was correct 
(and even then not being sure) and then resort to playing fast & loose 
by recompiling just the one module they thought they changed and take 
their chances on the rest being wrong. ;-)

I've always liked Ada's ability to check consistency across modules - 
perhaps from having done it other ways and being burned too often. 
You're absolutely correct that one has to learn how to use the tools 
properly (exempli gratis, not "withing" everything at the package spec 
level) if one wishes to avoid unnecessary work. However, even used 
incorrectly - recompiling the world every time, for example - it 
probably *still* saves more time than it costs when considering how much 
time it takes to track down interface consistency errors with a debugger.

MDC

Richard Riehle wrote:
> 
> 
> I recall one of oiur Ada 83 clients who developed a large system for the
> DoD and constantly complained about how long it took to compile
> programs.  

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