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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577df5d4a0e88785 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-19 17:52:36 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!205.252.116.205!howland.erols.net!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <91b9ma$bne$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A3E36C4.3466A19C@averstar.com> <3A3E5E7E.67817482@acm.org> <91o028$vp2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A3F8E88.317C9FDB@acm.org> Subject: Re: Bad coding standards 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 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:52:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.215.86.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 977277155 216.215.86.176 (Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:52:35 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:52:35 CST Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3273 Date: 2000-12-20T01:52:35+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:3A3F8E88.317C9FDB@acm.org... : Robert Dewar wrote: : : > Yes, that is of course true, nevertheless it is an advantage : > if everyone, or at least most folks, agree on a consistent : > style, as it makes discussion easier (it has for example : > been a consistent annoyance in C that there are several : > conventions for the use of {} : > : : Oh sure. If there was a well defined and accepted standard for Ada : programming in general, it is better for people to stick with that than : go off inventing something of their own for every given project. I : recall looking at the Software Productivity Consortium's efforts in this : area and adopted many of the style guides in my efforts. However, my : comment to my boss at that time was: "Nice standard. I'd really hate to : get audited against it though." That pretty much burried it for our : projects. Just way too much detail for being enforceable. I circulated : it with other developers and strongly recommended that they look it over : and try to utilize it. I just didn't want an internal or external : auditor to start going through reams of our code and ding us at every : violation. That can get very costly and all you're doing is dealing with : cosmetic things that don't impact The Bottom Line as much as a slipped : delivery date would. My recommendation is to fire the auditors -- or at least, pull the rotten teeth. Worked for us.