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From: Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:53:24 -0500
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> if we choose to use a cryptic form of C++, with all the little
> shortcuts that make the code less readable, we might achieve
> some reduction in the KSLOC, but at what cost in understandability?

And at what cost in development time?  If the reader can't
understand the code, chances are the writer doesn't understand it
as well as he thinks he does (or she).

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

    "With all due respect, sir, if nobody understands it, it's broke."


-- 
Wes Groleau

    In any formula, constants (especially those obtained
    from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.