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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b24e52e7dcae753 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-06 11:03:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news.airnews.net!cabal10.airnews.net!cabal1.airnews.net!news-f.iadfw.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Liability Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 12:40:24 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: X-Orig-Message-ID: References: <3D231E17.97B4F695@san.rr.com> <3D25C26F.5BB9E9AE@despammed.com> Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Sat Jul 6 13:02:18 2002 NNTP-Posting-Host: !\&F@1k-YAkmOID (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26902 Date: 2002-07-06T12:40:24-05:00 List-Id: One would hope that you had a friendly talk with him at the code review. "Wes Groleau" wrote in message news:3D25C26F.5BB9E9AE@despammed.com... > > > > has subroutines. If you want to do something three times, you only write it > > once. The difference in complexity between a 25-storey office building and a > > Depends on who you are. I remember once > shaking my head in disbelief while examining > a _single_ Ada file that contained three _different_ > algorithms for removing leading and trailing blanks > from a string. > > When the person who wrote it said to someone else > across the room, "Ada is an abomination" it was very > difficult to not turn around and say, "It certainly > is when you write it!" > > -- > Wes Groleau > http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau