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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
Date: 5 Nov 2003 19:10:29 -0800
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Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk> wrote in message news:<m365hyh65o.fsf@niflheim.malonet>...
> 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:
> 
> [cut]
> 
> > By the way, if a C/C++ programmer writes x = x + 2; in lieu of x += 2,
> > chances are he is not a top-notch programmer. But Ada forces such bad
> > style, and that's bad style itself.
> 
> I allways write 'x = x + 2' instead of 'x += 2'. I simply despise the
> latter form, as it is unreadable and "hackish".
> 
> Luckily Ada does not encourage such bad style.

Oh, so x += 2 is "unreadable", eh? Do you have any idea what that says
about your intelligence? You might as well just blurt out, "I'm an
idiot".

I hope you are near the end of your career too, because otherwise you
have a tough row to hoe, considering that the four or five most
popular general-purpose programming languages consider "+=" standard.
Or do you expect to use Ada for the rest of your career? Good luck.

Folks, if you don't like my attitude, I really don't give a flying you
know what. Quit making assinine assertions in reply to my posts, and
I'll quit calling you on them.