From: Benoit Jauvin-Girard <jhove@CAM.ORG>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/20
Date: 1998-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.94.980120134513.21843A-100000@Ocean.CAM.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.884945034@merv
On 16 Jan 1998, Robert Dewar wrote:
[SNIP - In reply to Michael]
> Now here I disagree. If you have programmers (I don't care whether they
> are maintaining code or building it), and their orientation is that they
> react to quality standards by deciding that it means they cannot write
> cool code, and they want to do their own thing, then the one and only
> preferable solution is to get rid of these programmers. What you refer
> to as regimentation is something that quality workers in all fields
> must learn to accept. Yes, I realize that the programming field tends
> to be full of mavericks who insist on writing neat cool code, but this
> is a signal weakness of the field, not a strength.
>
> In practice I find one of the advantages of Ada is that Ada tends to
> encourage what you would like to call "regimented" environments, and
> thus to scare off the "cool neat code" crowd.
A small interjection: while I cannot truly disagree with the main idea
above (nobody likes indecipherable "Joe code", especially after Joe has
left the company), I find it worrysome that you'd call something that
scares programmers away from Ada an 'advantage'. Isn't one more
programmer choosing to work in Ada a good thing for the community?
..And I can only hope you don't mean that Ada makes it impossible to write
neat, cool code! (Since it's patently untrue.)
--
... Benoit Jauvin-Girard (jhove@cam.org)
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-13 0:00 Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Adam Beneschan
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-17 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-18 0:00 ` who owns the code? was " nabbasi
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-19 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-22 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-21 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <69rnvv$ <dewar.885475174@me>
[not found] ` <6a8mir$caa@nn <dewar.8855 <6a8vgd$cr7@nntp1.erinet.com>
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-23 0:00 ` James Hopper
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-23 0:00 ` James Hopper
[not found] ` <6a8mir$caa@nn <dewar.8855 <6a8vgd$cr7@nn <dewar.885555487@merv>
1998-01-24 0:00 ` James Hopper
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Benoit Jauvin-Girard [this message]
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-19 0:00 ` who owns the code? was " Anonymous
1998-01-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-01-25 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-14 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-10 0:00 Two simple language questions (plural types) Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <n5rs5FAStOz0Ew2+@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
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