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: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/06 Message-ID: <55p83q$kr9$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194794513 references: <32723F6A.54A3@dtek.chalmers.se> <32750568.123@essi.fr> <01bbc5d8$a3b24e00$6a9148a6@cornerstone.mydomain.org> <55955a$n04@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <327E3E4D.5107@watson.ibm.com> <327EA5BB.1EFD@gate.net> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia nntp-posting-user: ok newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jerry Petrey writes: >I agree with Norman on this but unfortunately automatic formatters and >many people will only write Channels_Allocated_To_Cbs, capitalizing >only the the first letter of each word even when some are acronyms >and should be in all caps. The free program 'aimap' can be used to fix that. I have never used an automatic formatter for Ada (it would be _very_ nice to have one when marking student code), but I can't imagine why a modern formatter _wouldn't_ do something like aimap here. >In any case, I think Feldman's book is still a very good book for >its intended audience, in spite of this difference in style. Nobody denies _that_. The pity is that it would be even _better_ if it followed the AQ&S guidelines. We teach Ada in 1st and 2nd year here. Feldman has done too much good to the Ada community for us to be able to ignore him, _but_ we have such a hard struggle getting students to follow any convention at all (they _will_ indent by 8s even when you tell them "use ^T to indent in VIle, not ^I") that the _last_ thing we need is a book *teaching* them to use a different, and significantly uglier, style. For what it's worth, there are elements of my *preferred* style which differ from the AQ&S guidelines, and I have deliberately switched to someone I like less because I don't think my "rights" to write as I prefer outweigh the _students'_ rights to be presented with *consistent* good examples. I like Barnes' books a _lot_. -- Mixed Member Proportional---a *great* way to vote! Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.