Question on Ada style.

Question on Ada style.

["BUD::PEARSON"]

    A few coworkers and I have noticed something odd happening to the
Ada programs we write: more and more often, the top-level ("main")
procedure turns out to "do nothing itself".  It ends with

                  begin
                     null;
                  end;

while the "real work" is done by generic packages instantiated
in its declarative part.
    Have we wandered off the path of righteousness? or is THIS the
path of righteousness? Is there a cogent (preferably bumper-sticker-
sized) explanation why it SHOULD be this way, that we can give the
old, conservative guy across the trailer, who suspects that we've been
seduced by a fascination for the arcane subtleties of the Ada language?

  -  Peter
(pearson%anchor.decnet@lll-icdc.arpa)
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