Re: Looking for good Ada95 book

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

Michael Feldman <mfeldman@SEAS.GWU.EDU> writes:
>
>If the lexical style is really sufficient reason to adopt or reject a
>text, I'd say you're not reading for content...
>
>
    I've read your book and I think the important thing is that it
    does something lots of Ada critics said couldn't be done: Teach
    beginning programming using Ada. (You know the criticsms - too
    complex, too much to know before you can write anything useful,
    etc, etc.)

    While I did find the format of the code a little disconcerting (I
    got used to the lower-case reserved words, SHOUTING_IDENTIFIERS
    common in Ada83) I didn't find it terribly distracting. The main
    thing I've found with formatting is simply to be consistent.
    (That, and taking the time to *DO* it makes you review and
    double-check your code!)

    Far more disturbing to me is code that is "organically grown". The
    sort of thing that happens when the programmer is thinking "If I
    stick this variable in this package then procedure X can write
    some data which function Y can read and update and I won't have to
    add new 'with' clauses..." All too often, bad formatting is a
    'leading indicator' that you're going to see organically grown
    code.

    MDC

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