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: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Time to join the fold? Date: 1999/01/26 Message-ID: <78kmr7$tbt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437057129 References: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net> <78julr$nd8$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 26 15:26:44 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <78julr$nd8$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>, "Jean-Pierre Rosen" 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) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own