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-Thread: 103376,78609accbfa860fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!API-DIGITAL.COM-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:05:54 -0600 From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: usefulness of "data hiding" References: <72f07ba4-f06d-44bf-9759-0e6f0d0426d0@h20g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3f325$49722c12$4a336050$32642@API-DIGITAL.COM> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com X-Trace: 3f32549722c12ef96c5f532642 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4387 Date: 2009-01-17T13:05:54-06:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan wrote: > I think that for this purpose, being capable of making a mistake makes > one a dummy programmer. And that would include me, despite the fact > that I've been programming for over 30 years. I do appreciate > language features to help make it more difficult for me to make a > mistake, because that cuts down on the amount of time I have to spend > debugging my mistakes. Actually, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't > appreciate that, although I suspect it's an ego thing. Heh :-) See "Confessions of a Terrible Programmer"... (http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html) Marc A. Criley McKae Technologies