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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 11:26:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com> <9ff447f2.0107312313.666dea54@posting.google.com> <9k92j4$n6j$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B6842AD.1C56ECBE@sneakemail.com> Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 14:26:16 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:26:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10971 Date: 2001-08-01T18:26:16+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B6842AD.1C56ECBE@sneakemail.com>, Russ says... > >It would be interesting to add up all the time programmers spend going >back and putting in semicolons and recompiling after the compiler >catches their omission. I'll bet it's over a tenth of a percent of the >programming time (of C/C++ and Ada programmers). Not much, eh? Let's You'd get zippo out of me. I had lots of trouble with them in Pascal (which had sillier rules for them, if I remember right). But I can't remember getting one of those errors out of an Ada compiler in *years*. The closest I can think of is the occasions that I accidently put an *extra* one in at the end of a parameter spec list (more likely, when I delete the last paramter, and forget to remove the semi on the previous line). But that is *really* rare. If you have problems with this, I'd wadger you are just unused to the Algol family of languages. That will pass with time. But even if this *were* an issue (which its not), I don't think you'd get much of a rise out of anyone here. Most of us Ada folk are way more concerned about the time spent debugging our code than we are about the time we spend placating the compiler (or typing it up, for that matter). There's just no comparison between the two where effort expended is concerned. You'd have much more luck saying something like, "here's a *new* check that Ada compilers should be forced to do for all code". For instance, you almost have me with your "mandatory indention checking" argument... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com