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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book
Date: 1996/11/09
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 <1996Nov4.083416.1@eisner> <dewar.847123116@merv>
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Date: 1996-11-09T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.847123116@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

[snip]

>That is why Mike's book is disturbing, it creates a generation of Ada
>programmers who have got used to a seriously non-standard style. Virtually
>NO code that we see at report@gnat.com uses upper case keywords like BEGIN
>and END. The only other use we see is SHOUTING_IDENTIFIERS, Ada 83 style, and
>that is certainly disappearing fast.

I rest my case. (pun intended.) Even my freshmen are usually cool enough 
to use lower-case reserved words once they get to be sophomores. I even
suggest that they do so.

I also avoid use clauses, for the most part; GNAT sources use them all over
the place. Which of us is "right", Robert? Somehow my students - once they
understand what they are doing - manage to switch to a style that suits
them instead of me.

Maybe your freshmen are inherently smarter than mine; they need no emphasis
to help them distinguish reserved words. Fine.

Sheesh; this is really getting tiresome.

Mike Feldman