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,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Time to join the fold? Date: 1999/01/25 Message-ID: <78irk3$d28$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 436806194 References: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x10.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jan 25 22:35:48 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net>, "Mike Silva" wrote: > - Ada is wordy. Luckily I'm a touch typist . > However, I recognize that > I sometimes get myself into trouble in C because it *is* > so easy to write a > quick function, and then another, and then... Presumably > the Ada > requirement (as I perceive it) to "spell it all out" > helps encourage "think > twice, write once" programming. That may be so, and if so, good :-) But that is not the goal of the syntax design. Rather in Ada we completely favor the reader over the writer, we don't care if the writer has to work a bit harder if it helps the reader. So the way to judge Ada code is by how easy it is to read, not how easy it is to write! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own