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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2afac1a4161c7f35 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Benoit Jauvin-Girard Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Date: 1998/01/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 317757714 References: <884736089.2104295427@dejanews.com> <69lael$90o@top.mitre.org> <01bd2207$18f3fac0$95fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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)