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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,abd120a1d5231d28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Darel Cullen Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book Date: 1996/11/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 200699599 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: djcull.demon.co.uk references: <3290C33B.1772@cse.eng.lmu.edu> <56rc87$lbb@felix.seas.gwu.edu> organization: my bedroom mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <329841F4.66DE@worldnet.att.net>, "S. McLain" 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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Darel J. Cullen Software Engineer Email: Darel@djcull.demon.co.uk Url: http://www.djcull.demon.co.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-