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-Thread: 103376,78609accbfa860fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: usefulness of "data hiding" Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:15:50 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <72f07ba4-f06d-44bf-9759-0e6f0d0426d0@h20g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <3f325$49722c12$4a336050$32642@API-DIGITAL.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232381750 19204 127.0.0.1 (19 Jan 2009 16:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4413 Date: 2009-01-19T08:15:50-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 17, 11:05 am, "Marc A. Criley" wrote: > Adam Beneschan wrote: > > I think that for this purpose, being capable of making a mistake makes > > one a dummy programmer. And that would include me, despite the fact > > that I've been programming for over 30 years. I do appreciate > > language features to help make it more difficult for me to make a > > mistake, because that cuts down on the amount of time I have to spend > > debugging my mistakes. Actually, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't > > appreciate that, although I suspect it's an ego thing. > > Heh :-) See "Confessions of a Terrible Programmer"... > > (http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-p...) Wonderful...thanks!!! Interestingly, I skimmed through the comments and found someone suggesting that using Python will help you get to "bug-free nirvana" more quickly. I don't actually have any experience with Python so I don't know why they think this might be the case... -- Adam