From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
Date: 12 Oct 90 05:29:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <920036@hpclapd.HP.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 589@censun1.UUCP
>/ hpclapd:comp.lang.ada / brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) / 1:59 am Oct 11, 1990 /
>
>The beauty of this system being that if sourcefile is ever removed
>accidentally, you end up using sourcefile.ada even if it is entirely
>different. This contributes greatly to bug concealment, unreliability,
>and other software engineering techniques.
The person that names one file sourcefile and a different one
sourcefile.ada deserves what he gets!
Same kind of problems occur with things like linked files and unprintable
characters in file names. A certain amount of knowledge about the file
system and its behaviour has to be assumed.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-09-28 20:25 File name conventions for Ada units SSUID Craig E Warsaw
1990-09-29 16:29 ` stt
1990-09-29 22:04 ` Dan Rittersdorf
1990-10-01 14:56 ` David Emery
1990-10-06 14:37 ` Rik Palo
1990-09-30 2:49 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-02 17:10 ` arny.b.engelson
1990-10-04 15:05 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-02 21:55 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-10-03 2:00 ` Alan Adamson
1990-10-03 17:00 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-10-04 9:37 ` Mike Harrison
1990-10-04 12:10 ` Robert Firth
1990-10-04 1:55 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-04 17:22 ` Brian Hanafee
1990-10-08 17:33 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-10-11 8:59 ` Dan Bernstein
1990-10-12 5:29 ` Andy DeFaria [this message]
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