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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Laurent Guerby Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/16 Message-ID: <86itqs7hep.fsf@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682163654 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39E47BAC.8DB1AD0B@acm.org> <86aec7tl59.fsf@acm.org> X-Trace: front1m.grolier.fr 971721924 9676 195.36.173.156 (16 Oct 2000 18:45:24 GMT) Organization: Club-Internet (France) NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 2000 18:45:24 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-16T18:45:24+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > I don't buy it. I find it impossible to chat about programs of any > substantial size without writing them down -- that's what whiteboards > are for. [...] May be we aren't talking about the same thing. I have no problem telling someone (over the phone, so no whiteboards), that the gizmo they're looking after in our code (> 100K, not that big by Ada standard, but definitely not toy size ;-) is in package gizmo factory, function make it with the argument item color being red which translates directly to Gizmo_Factory.Make_It (Item_Color => Red); no need to look up the spec or to try 50 casings. When I run after inconsitent names, I change them and try to educate the author (non software engineer) about the merits of consistency in big programs (> 100 lines ;-). As for talking about complex algorithms, or for how to insert your new feature which will need changing over 20 packages, yes the whiteboard or your favourite editor buffer is needed, I unfortunately agree 100%. -- Laurent Guerby