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: 103376,5d10a7f3571b1fc2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: Re: just a question... Date: 1996/04/18 Message-ID: <9604181853.AA08771@most>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 148226689 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >> ...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. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Magnavox - Mail Stop 10-40 Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 elm (Unix): wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------