Re: Porting ADA source

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

We may not be all that far apart. I too have been around the block 
enough to know that "Experience" is what we have that enables us to 
recognize a mistake when we make it again. ;-) I have lived to regret 
believing the story "It will *never* get moved off of this platform...." 
and I too prefer to build things in a more "elegant" manner when possible.

Maybe I've just lived long enough to know as well that people like and 
find useful certain approaches that are *not* 'elegant' because they are 
expedient and that if you fight them on it, they go somewhere else. I 
think that's one of the things that has hurt Ada over the years: We keep 
telling programmers they shouldn't do something they want to do and then 
wonder why they stay away in droves.

MDC


Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
> That is why I said that you may be able to get to "sort of working" 
> faster with a 'quick and dirty' approach.  But I've been doing this too 
> long and have too good a memory (or too many bad memories) to ever make 
> that mistake again.
> 


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