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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:51:52 +0200
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Russ Paielli <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> writes:

>> Like it is in FORTRAN 77? No, it is not convenient only annoying and a
>> bug trap. Please explain why it is convenient.
> 
> It is more than "convenient." It FORCES the programmer to use proper
> indentation structure, and it assures the reader that the indentation
> structure is indeed consistent with the logical structure. It is
> completely in the Ada spirit of encouraging good structure and form. It
> will ELIMINATE an entire class of bugs.

That's why at least one Ada compiler optionally checks indentation and
refuses to compile code with confusing and inconsistent indentation.