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Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions
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On 04/06/2010 14:49, in article
4c09047d$0$6976$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net, "Georg Bauhaus"
<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote:

> On 03.06.10 15:49, (see below) wrote:
>> On 03/06/2010 04:16, in article op.vdpfdcgoxmjfy8@garhos, "Yannick Duch�ne
>> (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> Le Thu, 27 May 2010 17:21:57 +0200, (see below)
>>> <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> a �crit:
>>>> My experience is that CS/SE students always focus on "coding" at the
>>>> expense
>>>> of problem analysis, program design, project planning, verification,
>>>> validation, documentation, and anything else they find less congenial.
>>> I always though this was not so much with these students. So why do they
>>> choose it if they are not aware of what it requires ?
>> 
>> They are aware. That makes no difference.
> 
> Coding invariables makes me think of a tricky(?) question:
> What should a language look like that naturally makes the programmer
> think before coding, and take his/her time?

I don't think this has anything to do with PL design.
It is to do with competence, and a professional attitude.
Programmers who possess those qualities work well, even in C.

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk