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 14:11:39 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!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!204.127.161.8!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) 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> <_bdQb.24861$zj7.15527@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <_bdQb.24861$zj7.15527@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:57:20 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1074894986 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:56:26 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:56:26 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4742 Date: 2004-01-23T16:57:20-05:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > 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. Given that it should be optional, it would not be your problem ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk