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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:08:01 +0000 (UTC)
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David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote:
 
:  I'm not sure why anyone would use a code editor that
: doesn't at least color code the source.
 
Someone who will have to read source code where no
such editor/terminal is available, for esample when hot
fixing.
I find it highly instructive to look at sources in
different editors with different fonts on different
terminal types, with different option settings.
Keeping source code readable "outside" your aesthetical
preferences--that might be good for you and your productivity,
but not necessarily for others--should be in the spirit
of the much stressed Ada readability.

(E.g., many don't hesitate to write lines of a length 
hardly ever found in texts written or printed on paper,
probably encouraged by what current displays offer; the single
advantage I can see here is that long sequences of statments
in deeply nested if statements fit on one display page.)

-- Georg
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