From: "news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com>
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/02/02
Date: 1999-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7974kc$ivh$1@remarQ.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78irk3$d28$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<78irk3$d28$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net>,
> "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net> wrote:
>
>> - Ada is wordy. Luckily I'm a touch typist <g>.
>> 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!
As a comment to this I would like to suggest quote from Guutier "A good
laugh .." post:
>Frederic wrote:
>> Ridiculous. Tell me one thing you can do in C you cannot do in Pascal.
>Write code, that looks like THIS: ;-)))
> ==================================================================
> #include <io.h>
> float o=0.075,h=1.5,T,r,O,l,I;int _,L=80,s=3200;main(){for(;s%L||
> (h-=o,T= -2),s;4 -(r=O*O)<(l=I*I)|++ _==L&&write(1,(--s%L?_<L?--_
> %6:6:7)+"World! \n",1)&&(O=I=l=_=r=0,T+=o /2))O=I*2*O+h,I=l+T-r;}
==================================================================
Maybe it is easy to write such kind of things but it is not possible to read
it and to understand it.
Regards,
Vladimir Olensky
(vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com)
(Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com)
Telecommunication specialist,
Occidental C.I.S. Service, Inc. ( www.oxy.com )
Moscow,
Russia.
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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 ` 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 ` 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 ` Al Christians
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?) 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 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
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 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com [this message]
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
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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