From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: The Ada way of programming
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:23:07 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-12-28T08:23:07-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f1b5488-c44a-4eae-bd18-42dfa45b736d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50dcbde0$0$6584$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:30:09 PM UTC-6, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> You'd meet it when there are many anonymous pointers, and, possibly,
> when nesting is hardly ever used. That's because a programmer coming
> from C++ is not used to parameter modes, and neither to what can be
> achieved using hierarchies.
> The latter has always been controversial, I think ("nesting is
> for the birds"), but leads to different designs.
Which is really rather sad; nesting helps one organize in such a way that an error-fix has limited impact on the rest of the source text. It helps facilitate structured programming (to such a degree anyone who is vehemently anti-goto ought to embrace nesting)
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2012-12-25 10:18 The Ada way of programming alb348
2012-12-25 16:58 ` Florian Weimer
2012-12-27 21:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-28 16:23 ` Shark8 [this message]
2012-12-29 19:51 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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