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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.70.22 with SMTP id t22mr5932198ioa.8.1505077762248; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:09:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.250.140 with SMTP id v134mr468358ith.0.1505077762227; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!o200no1905057itg.0!news-out.google.com!c139ni2942itb.0!nntp.google.com!o200no1905052itg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:09:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.255.112.230; posting-account=NT38RwoAAAB4_OO_uw8yHtNaa9Hkjukk NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.255.112.230 References: <4dc188de-802b-41ad-9cdd-b8246eb9a1c7@googlegroups.com> <47cc6474-8b75-4644-92d0-bd1f694c20e7@googlegroups.com> <338b355a-dee4-4c73-b00e-09d9a8430fb1@googlegroups.com> <21692daf-5a52-43f0-a72a-d79e6a7dcc9f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <79e3056e-647f-44f4-8dcc-029bb440165e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9oYW4gU8O2ZGVybGluZCDDhXN0csO2bQ==?= Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:09:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48008 Date: 2017-09-10T14:09:21-07:00 List-Id: > No, A (I) + B (I) is less simple, because it doesn't mean A (I) + B (I), it > really means Real_A (Real_A'First + I) + Real_B (Real_B'First + I), and the > reader has to remember that to understand what the code is doing. The more the > reader has to remember, the greater the cognitive load of the code, and a > significant part of S/W engineering is aimed at reducing the cognitive load. If > you write Real_A (Real_A'First + I) + Real_B (Real_B'First + I) then the code > actually does what it says and you haven't increased the cognitive load. Yes you are right. Algorithms has to be taught in the Ada realm.