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From: "news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com>
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/02/02
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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.