From: bill <bill@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: What is ADA?
Date: 1999/02/23
Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7auet2$qu5@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36D2A554.88EF1F69@Maths.UniNe.CH
In article <36D2A554.88EF1F69@Maths.UniNe.CH>, Gautier says...
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>
>To be clear: large programs, not small. If your program is
>less than 10'000 lines, some compilers will refuse to compile
>it: "Error at line 9702: End-of-file found. No serious
>usage of Ada. No object file produced; please add stuff
>and retry.".
>And try to hide identifiers like "Bitmap", "Mouse", too.
>
speaking of large programs.
I heared that when the goverment used to pay contractors for
code by how counting how many lines of code, a paying some fee
per/line, that people used to write large amount of dead code
which does nothing but increase the size of the program, as in:
if( false )
x:= 1;
y:=2;
x:=y;
y:=2;
else
-- ok, do real work now, we earned enough goverment money allready :)
end if
btw, notice that in Java, the above is not possible. Java does not
allow code that can't be reached from being compiled. (which can
sometimes be annoying actually).
bill
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-22 0:00 What is ADA? Corvus
1999-02-21 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-23 0:00 ` bill [this message]
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
[not found] ` <36d52fe9.8491568@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-02-26 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Corvus
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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1997-05-10 0:00 David Chang
1997-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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