Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book

[Darel Cullen <Darel@djcull.demon.co.uk>]

In article <329841F4.66DE@worldnet.att.net>, "S. McLain" <JSMCL-
endny@worldnet.att.net> spoke thus :-

>--Back to the point, now that I am beginning to teach myself Ada, I follow the 
>industry 
>standard style guide.  My reserved words are always lower-case, and my 
>identifiers have 
>beginning caps.  I even write a few comments.  As far as the reserved word caps 
>or lower 
>argument is concerned, lower-case makes sense.  How many reserved words must we 
>learn?  
>Not many.  What gets confusing and what should stand out are the identifiers 
>that we 
>come up with ourselves.  They change with every new application written.  
>
>Students should be taught the standard style for the particular language they 
>are 
>working with, but perhaps not penalized too heavily for their stylistic errors.  
>They 
>should be rewarded for producing programs which work and which have source code 
>that 
>their PEERS can follow.
>skip mclain

I agree, but i think forcing yourself to learn a strict format is
generally a waste of time, much better to use an interactive formatting
tool (such as 'FORMAT' in the rational environment, or the Ada-mode in
emacs) so that you arent using precious time messing about with format,
when you could be cutting code.

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