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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,751584f55705ddb7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tojst1+@pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen) Subject: Re: Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems] Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: <4j982l$cnh@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144350613 references: <31499D21.1DA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <827432438.26126@assen.demon.co.uk> <4ivnr9$86o@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <4j7dcl$dfu@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> organization: University of Pittsburgh newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff (bobduff@world.std.com) wrote: : Pardon my saying so, but that's complete nonsense. You can't understand : Ada programs without understanding the semantics of Ada, whether or not : your identifiers are verbose or terse. Furthermore, it is completely : irrelevant whether random folks off street can understand your Ada code. Partly true. You can't start changing the code without knowing the language, but it isn't allways true that you can't get a fairly good idea about how the program works without knowing the language, if the language/identifiers are close to English (or another human language). This may or may not be important, depending on the project. : What matters is whether a professional programmer, who knows the : language, can understand the code well enough to modify it without : breaking it. This is of course important, but in some cases it will also be important that people that cooperate with you (which may not be a programmer, or at least not an Ada-programmer) can get a fairly good understanding of what the program does. Of course the documentation will do most of that job, but readable code doesn't hurt :-). -- +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Tore B. Joergensen | e-mail : tore@lis.pitt.edu | | Centre Court Villa | web : http://www.pitt.edu/~tojst1 | | 5535 Centre Avenue # 6 | | | Pgh, PA 15232, USA | Norwegian MSIS-student at Univ. of Pgh. | +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+