Re: S-expression I/O in Ada

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Natacha Kerensikova" <lithiumcat@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d1c9014b-c78c-4cb5-ae34-506f8e5702c7@i13g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
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>> ), then I assure you it can deal with Ada.
>
>But what's the point of knowing all this when one can't design a three-
>digit LOC program properly?
>It's just like knowing the dictionary contents by heart without
>knowing anything about grammar.

I think Bob's point is that most of this discussion is about software 
engineering and program decomposition. That's orthogonal to the 
implementation language: your programs would be better in any language, be 
it C, Ada, Fortran, Pascal, or anything else when you (or anyone) take those 
concepts into account.

But there is no *requirement* to take those concepts into account in order 
to write Ada code. There is no requirement that you have to separate the 
creation and writing of atoms. Your code would be better in *any* language 
if you did, but it isn't always obvious how to accomplish that, and 
depending on the situation, it might not be worth the mental effort to do 
it.

In any case, you are spending way too much effort trying to figure out how 
to fit your work into what Dmitry is suggesting. Bob and I have both tried 
to point out that there are lots of other ways to structure programs over 
what Dmitry is suggesting. Don't let one person's opinions push you away 
from Ada!! There are a lot of strong opinions here, and not all of them are 
the same. There is no one right way to use Ada!

                      Randy Brukardt, Editor, Ada 2005 and Ada 2012 
Standards.