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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd63afa4dc364b7e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-26 10:44:00 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Implementing C/C++ style #include... Date: 26 Mar 2001 17:34:10 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <99nuii$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <98m938$2iod0$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <99alrr$itf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <99d5dj$fi4$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e531b.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6064 Date: 2001-03-26T17:34:10+00:00 List-Id: On 26 Mar 2001 18:12:16 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >Anton Gibbs writes: > >> I agree that Ada is rich enough to do the programming part of systems >> development without the need for a pre-processor but my experience is that a >> pre-processor can help enormously with configuration management. > >Even for medium-sized projects, it doesn't. For example, Linux kernel >development is quite difficult because no developer can build the kernel in >more than a few configurations, but there are more then 2**50 possible >configurations. As a result, it happens all the time that one change breaks >some special configurations, and there's really no way to test automatically >for such problems. Which has what to do with a pre-processor? The Linux kernel would be able to be built in 2**50 possible configurations in any case, with or without a pre-processor. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg