From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>
Subject: Re: just a question...
Date: 1996/04/18
Date: 1996-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9604181853.AA08771@most> (raw)
>> ...advices ... to a C programmer who wants to use Ada ?
Carl Bowman's excellent response included the line
> I would acquaint myself with the Public Ada Library ....
Yes, there is a LOT of good stuff in the PAL, but there is also some
garbage. Some of the stuff in there was written with strange workarounds
for compilers that did not implement the full language (-83) or that had
major bugs. There are compilation units that were auto-generated by
other tools. They work, but hand-written code should NEVER look like that!
Finally, some of it--believe it or not--is just plain garbage.
So please: take advantage of the PAL and other re-use repositories
to save work, but don't use "free software" as an example of good coding
style without at least getting a second opinion.
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1996-04-18 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) [this message]
1996-04-22 0:00 ` just a question Nasser Abbasi
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1996-04-23 0:00 Just " W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-04-17 0:00 patrick lacheny
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Carl Bowman
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Greg Bond
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
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