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: 103376,3869f0598191b11d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40FC6B02.1090108@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Porting ADA source References: <40FBBB16.8050206@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:44:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.64.89 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1090284293 165.247.64.89 (Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:44:53 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:44:53 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2260 Date: 2004-07-20T00:44:53+00:00 List-Id: Well, you do present some constructive alternatives. I've just often found myself in the position of polishing a turd and "Quick & Dirty" can be an effective solution. It depends on how much work you want to put into it. MDC tmoran@acm.org wrote: > Not "Morally Evil", just "Generally A Poor Solution". > In in the current OP's situation, he can use "renames" for his > differently named library packages/routines, representation clauses > to be explicit about layout of data structures, and problem-oriented, > rather than (obsolete) hardware-oriented types to specify the sizes > of integers, floats, etc. ie, which is better: -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================