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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-23 09:52:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?) References: <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <400FC8E8.2040100@noplace.com> <4011127C.4030801@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <_bdQb.24861$zj7.15527@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:52:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.14 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1074880378 63.184.105.14 (Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:52:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:52:58 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4730 Date: 2004-01-23T17:52:58+00:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > As soon as you start splitting code into different parallel "files", > you are denormalizing and decentralizing your code. This is > maintenance hell. If you find a bug in one of these "portability" > unique files, then you have to edit several files to effect the > same fix. It also much more difficult to view the impact to > other "platforms" for such a fix. C with preprocessor directives is also Maintenance Hell. I don't see that it's a better Hell. -- Jeff Carter "C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata and expecting some sort of improvement." Drew Olbrich 51