Re: ada writing guide

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <8d6jfu$f6b$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>,
  "Riyaz Mansoor" <s800032@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>
> after reading a whole lot of replies (thanx) i have come to the
> understanding that ADA does not have strict code writing standard such
> as the ANSI C standard. nobody has mentioned any standard for ADA code
> writing. just different formats that different people use.

I'm curious exactly what this "strict code writing standard" for C you
keep referring to is. There's "Hungarian notation", but that's not
universally adhered to, and usually not rigidly when it is. And that
just addresses identifier naming, not indentation.

For instance, my vxWorks system uses at least 3 different naming styles
for the C OS calls. Contrast that to the Ada world, where the issue of
naming is really all-but decided (see the AQ&SG for an explanation). In
fact, vxWorks even has some code that doesn't adhere to the convention
of using ".h" for included files!

If anything, I think you'll find that Ada code from different
professionals looks much more similar that C code. There are some nitty
disagreements, as this thread shows. But the small scope of those just
shows how broad the agreement in the Ada community really is. The style
guide I pointed to will clue you in on the basics of this style.

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