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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b31edd6b76eebb7d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.205.65 with SMTP id fp1mr17710067qab.4.1356711787714; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.96.196 with SMTP id du4mr5235312qeb.37.1356711787692; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni3151qap.0!nntp.google.com!ee4no2970077qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50dcbde0$0$6584$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.153.58.182; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.153.58.182 References: <637cb352-9a0f-45b2-99ee-a5a6077f4e46@googlegroups.com> <87ehieukz6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <50dcbde0$0$6584$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7f1b5488-c44a-4eae-bd18-42dfa45b736d@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: The Ada way of programming From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:23:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-12-28T08:23:07-08:00 List-Id: On Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:30:09 PM UTC-6, Georg Bauhaus wrote: >=20 > 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 a= n error-fix has limited impact on the rest of the source text. It helps fac= ilitate structured programming (to such a degree anyone who is vehemently a= nti-goto ought to embrace nesting)