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,fd63afa4dc364b7e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-26 06:26:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: <98m938$2iod0$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Subject: Re: Implementing C/C++ style #include... Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:24:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 985616652 127.0.0.1 (Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:24:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:24:12 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6049 Date: 2001-03-26T14:24:12+00:00 List-Id: In article , Anton Gibbs says... > >I agree that Ada is rich enough to do the programming part of systems >development without the need for a pre-processor but my experience is >that a pre-processor can help enormously with configuration management. My experience is that the resultant source code is a maintanence nightmare. Apparently, I'm not the only one with that experience, as conditional compilation was expressly forbidden from the original language design. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com