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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/26
Date: 1999-01-26T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78kmr7$tbt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78julr$nd8$1@platane.wanadoo.fr

In article <78julr$nd8$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
  "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> The ultimate experience for the Ada programmer is to spend two days
> getting the program through the compiler, but then it works like a
> charm from the first run on.

Eww. I hate seeing people put it this way, because it really isn't true. It
usually only takes me a few minutes to placate the compiler (less if I take
the intelligent approach and check things every few minutes with the compiler
while I'm coding). But I almost always have a bug or two in any reasonablly
complicated algorithm.

The difference is that my C code (usually toy school projects) always seems
to be a veritable cornucopia of bugs. I have bugs masking bugs masking bugs.
Think of a heaving, teaming mountain of cockroaches which must be removed
one-by-one... Yuk! Why put myself through that grief when I don't have to?

T.E.D. (who hates working w/o a debugger, and knows the syntax of a makefile
very well)

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-26  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-22  0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25  0:00   ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02  0:00       ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25  0:00     ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25  0:00     ` dennison
1999-01-31  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01  0:00         ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-01  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-02  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02  0:00             ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02  0:00               ` dennison
1999-02-02  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03  0:00                 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03  0:00                   ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04  0:00                   ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04  0:00                     ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10  0:00                       ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04  0:00                     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04  0:00                       ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04  0:00                         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04  0:00                         ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04  0:00                       ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05  0:00                         ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04  0:00                           ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05  0:00                           ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04  0:00                       ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04  0:00                         ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05  0:00                         ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02  0:00               ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) nabbasi
1999-02-02  0:00                 ` dennison
1999-02-02  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02  0:00                     ` dennison
1999-02-02  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-03  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03  0:00                         ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02  0:00                     ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) Al Christians
1999-01-26  0:00     ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26  0:00       ` dennison [this message]
1999-01-26  0:00         ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27  0:00     ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01  0:00       ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23  0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24  0:00     ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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